[bigyikes]

not doubting you but how does it take a year to remove twitter references?

surely twitter has some internal code search tool like Sourcegraph which would let them easily search for all variations of “twitter”, right? /twi?t*e?r/gi

[green-eclipse]

Code for a public facing website used by hundreds of millions of people is always more complicated than you think it is on the surface.

[pavel_lishin]

I would like you to do this for one of your larger projects at work - just change its name with a simple regex like this - and see how many unit tests fail.

"But I'll just fix those!", you might say, and you might. Except your project is likely not as big as twitter, and fixing every problem is likely to become a much bigger problem.

Plus, you now have to catch all the stuff not caught by unit tests, which also includes design elements that a person has to look at.