If your point was "Twitter has been adding new features despite their engineering cuts", that is incorrect. Community notes and video streaming were all added before the Musk acquisition. The only engineering changes I can think of since the acquisition have been semi-disasters in my opinion:
1. Paying for blue checks. Which for me just means that blue checks are the hallmark of the lowest quality comments and posts now.
2. Renaming from Twitter to X. This one highlights how Twitter is basically unable to even do this correctly without a proper engineering team. Normally you'd implement this so that navigating to twitter.com would redirect to x.com, but Twitter had to do the opposite because changing the primary domain name likely would have touched a ton of underlying assumptions throughout the code, and Twitter was no longer equipped to be able to handle a change of that magnitude.
hn_throwaway_99|2 years ago
1. Paying for blue checks. Which for me just means that blue checks are the hallmark of the lowest quality comments and posts now.
2. Renaming from Twitter to X. This one highlights how Twitter is basically unable to even do this correctly without a proper engineering team. Normally you'd implement this so that navigating to twitter.com would redirect to x.com, but Twitter had to do the opposite because changing the primary domain name likely would have touched a ton of underlying assumptions throughout the code, and Twitter was no longer equipped to be able to handle a change of that magnitude.