And that bandwidth costs they were paying suprised GCP , when it's been pointed out that bandwidth costs can be quite low vs the cloud providers. Granted Twitter is operating at a very large scale...
For my own tweets and those of my closest friends, I have them all posted to a group Slack we have and I just use Slack search. It's absurd but instantaneous results.
Ultimately, I'm sure they did lots of kernel hacking and ingestion and ETL stuff but Slack search of Twitter mirror is better than Twitter search for my follow list.
Good to know. I stopped contributing to their metrics because I am sick and tired of seeing EM everywhere.
Says who?
There is no cost for making wild predictions that turn out wrong. In real life if a friend did that you'd begin discounting his talk. On social media that doesn't seem to happen, because there's a sucker born every minute, and crowds like to indulge in mood affiliation and emotional venting rather than rational analysis.
Almost everything on the list that was specific to a technology or accomplishment had a public url attached to it.
After spending time reading Elons first responders on Twitter, I have learned that in the hierarchy of human competence, rocket scientist or FSD engineer > engineer supporting a website. This means naturally they are better at everything even when they stoop to doing a lesser job and would quickly recognize the coding deficiencies at Twitter.
