Twitter and the Internet War
This is the excerpt I&#x27;ve seen being tweeted about this piece:<p><i>At the same time, her defenders say, Harvey has been forced to clean up a mess that Twitter should have fixed years ago. Twitter’s backend was initially built on Ruby on Rails, a rudimentary web-application framework that made it nearly impossible to find a technical solution to the harassment problem. If Twitter’s co-founders had known what it would become, a third former executive told me, “you never would have built it on a Fisher-Price infrastructure.” Instead of building a product that could scale alongside the platform, former employees say, Twitter papered over its problems by hiring more moderators. “Because this is just an ass-backward tech company, let’s throw non-scalable, low-tech solutions on top of this low-tech, non-scalable problem.”</i><p>Setting aside the whole &quot;Ruby&#x2F;Rails is slow&quot; discussion, I would&#x27;ve loved to see more elaboration by these sources about how a web framework makes moderation and policing &quot;nearly impossible&quot;. Compared to what? The PHP scripts that became Facebook?