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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Let’s say you run a messenger pigeon business (because bird lol)
You’ve trained your pigeons to do their routes, to get their food from specific spots, and where to get their messages. Everything is going well.
But you stretch that to the entire world, so now you have hired some other pigeon coops that have to obey different laws and speak different languages, not to mention they train pigeons differently for every language, so you have to manage translating it.
If you were to leave, the pigeons wouldn’t have food, they’d get hurt in bad weather with time, no one would fix the messages, etc.
Twitter in itself deals with hundreds of technologies and hundreds of different devices. If you change a small detail in one of the programs, it’d be like a pigeon relay being relocated. An entire corner of the world gets off the grid.
Many of those technologies are not twitter’s. Even your android version matters for some features. So that’s what they are constantly doing.
“Fixing stuff that breaks when someone else fixes something else that was or wasn’t broken.” – Programming 101
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