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Originally Posted by Locke
Okay, on the understanding that I've never coded anything nor do I really understand what that entails...
Twitter seems really basic? Its mental diarrhea in 140 characters or less. Do you really need Neo to keep this complex Matrix together??
It doesnt take payments, minimal personal information, its not like it needs to be Fort Knox or anything.
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Sure, that part is simple. 140 character messages. But then it's 140 character messages being created by thousands of people every minute, and millions more reacting to those messages. All around the world. There's no way you can just handle that all in one central place so now you have a worldwide distributed system, storing and synchronizing data between clients at a scale maybe 4 or 5 companies in the world do.
And while it's true they aren't storing payment information the way twitter has evolved means that they are trusted with the reputation of multinational companies and heads of state. Maintaining the security of the official Pepsi or POTUS account is pretty critical.