I guess this is applicable to any social media platform or other similar systems. Is it because there are always bugs to address, so it’s never really running smoothly, or other reasons?
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Imagine you left your house and went on vacation but you never came back (for the sake of positivity let’s imagine you won the lottery while on vacation and decided to spend the rest of your life on a yacht, and just forgot entirely about your little old house in Peoria).
What would happen?
For a while, nothing much. The furnace would continue to work, the pipes would not leak, etc.
Over time, things would start to break down. A furnace issue might cause the pipes to freeze and burst, flooding the basement. Mice might take up residence and chew on the wiring, starting an electrical fire. Burglars might notice the house is unoccupied and break in and steal things. A tree is knocked over by winds, breaks part of the roof, the roof allows rain in and the entire structure will rot and cave in.
A piece of software is like a house. It may look like a solid thing that doesn’t need human tending on the outside, but it needs regular maintenance and emergency repairs to remain functional and secure. A web platform like Twitter is like a whole neighborhood of houses all connected together that requires many of these houses (and the roads, sewers, electrical, etc. connecting them) to be in good working order, yet has thousands of nefarious people and governments constantly trying to break in (hackers) or simply torch them (DDOSers). And unlike a house, many of these pieces go out of date constantly and need to be updated in order to keep them from being wide open to anyone to hack. Without constant maintenance it will fall apart, but on a faster timeframe than a house would.
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