|
|
|
|
|
|
by sangnoir
851 days ago
|
|
|
There were no ex-Twitter employees involved in Threads at the time it launched. AFAICT, it was a frontend over a pared-down Instagram comment-system. Designing something like Twitter isn't hard, and it used to be a pretty common design question that could be answered in 30 minutes or less. Instagram certainly doesn't need outside help to help scale stuff, let alone people specifically from Twitter. |
|
|
This is not what I heard. I heard they hired up tons of prominent ex-Twitter.
>AFAICT, it was a frontend over a pared-down Instagram comment-system.
Do you use it? I do and it does not seem to operate that way. It is a more involved than that.
Yes they did rely on IG's infrastructure to help speed up development but this was a deliberate design choice and I don't blame them: They have this large asset of users and built up infrastructure, might as well use this advantage.