On: Refined Twitter

[pducks32]

Does anybody have any insight into Twitter's development structure? Do they have a separate mobile and desktop team; a single team; or separate teams where the desktop team just keeps the thing going until the mobile team can scale theirs up to desktop? Just curious.

[swanson → pducks32]

I met an engineer from Twitter at a conference and he said he was on a team (6+ people) that worked full-time on the Lists page for the Twitter.com desktop site. So anecdotally, they have (or at least had) very specific teams.

[mountaineer → swanson]

would be cool if one of them could add lists to the mobile web site since lists are completely left out of there.

[0942v8653 → mountaineer]

Interestingly, if you have the URL to one it works, but there is no interface to get to them.

[niccaluim → pducks32]

Dunno if this is still the case, but throughout my tenure there (2010-2014), mobile web and desktop were totally separate teams with separate codebases.

[CameronBanga → pducks32]

The recent OS X update (major revision, in December or so?) was an app that Twitter contracted out to a third party.

That should show about how much they care about clients outside of Twitter.com.

[ourcat → pducks32]

I used to have an office below their Folsom Street place a few years ago

They had far, far, far, too many people working for them doing nonsense-led minutiae even back then.