On: Introducing Twitter premium APIs

[enraged_camel]

>>If you're comparing it with WhatsApp

Worth noting WhatsApp was written in Erlang.

Relevant article: https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-us...

So it seems choosing the right technology can have a massive impact on a company's trajectory and chance of success.

[williamscales → enraged_camel]

They definitely attribute a lot of their early success to this choice. It seems reasonable to me that choosing a tool developed to create modern real time communications software is a pretty good idea ;)