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Everyone who tried Ruby on Rails: can confirm.
Didn't they switch away long ago because performance?
Not sure about Twitter internals, but doing a Twitter clone is one of the most popular Ruby on Rails noob exercise.
Anybody can make a twitter that can handle 100 users. The challenge is making worth at the scale of twitter
Sure, but the "scale of Twitter" becomes a more and more accessible goal by the day. elon fires everyone and intentionally breaks everything while only new feature releases are "new and exciting" paid tiers of horseshit that nobody wants. I'm not paying a penny for the privilege to yell into his sad, shrinking room with the remaining 17 nazis, 4200 corporate brands and 1.75 million bots that are left to make up its userbase.