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Twitter has numerous engineering teams. The pink flamingo team had an easier task than the ones putting out fires, slaying cougars, and curing cholera.



1: Apply water until fire is out. 2: Build a fence. 3: Treat acute cases with rehydration therapy, keep your poop out of your drinking water.

None of these are complicated. But they do require consistent application of effort until the problem is solved.


Several of them might require the expenditure of money (or a temporary decrease in revenue) and such solutions are difficult because they make investors nervous.




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