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by blowski 4265 days ago
Comparing to Facebook and Twitter is a useless comparison, because their scale causes so many edge cases. If you have that kind of scale, you can afford to hire the best in every area and build everything from scratch. Better to compare to a typical medium-sized website in a similar sector - e.g. a blog like cuteoverload.com or ecommerce site like tigerdirect.com.