Swirling around Musk, I’ve seen comments from people who think that redoing Twitter should take a team of 50 and 12 weeks. (“Because WhatsApp only has 35!”)
Oh my…
Stripped bare, Twitter is:
- Provide an online community of communities, that attract people, who attract even more people.
- Sell advertising to them, do the advertising, and get paid.
That second part alone, yeeesh! And that’s before even thinking about how many countries and languages that involves, nor the non-devel people to run sales, advertising account contact and management, support…
Hm. Underestimating projects is an industry disease, but I wonder if techbro libertarians are exceptionally bad at it?
I mean, if they think civilization can run without governments or mutual-support mechanisms, just rugged individuals self-supplied with bootstraps, they have to be rubbish at systems analysis!
