• Ysysel@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Never understood why we call them tech companies to be honest. There is nothing technologically interesting at twitter. And if there is… it is never the subject.

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      1 year ago

      So I think the main thing is scale—they’re tech companies (in the category they’re in) because of the engineering required to build & maintain something that operates at the scale they do

      And IMO at least in the early years it was pretty impressive what Twitter was capable of in terms of technology.

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      1 year ago

      If I remember, tech companies are generally those whose primary products are digitally based. And technology these days has essentially become synonymous woth the internet.