The Cost of Rewriting Technical Debt

Twitter is in technical debt, which means it can't ship features while rewriting the whole stack. The company has four proposals for new things they could build that could possibly get us profitable. But each of them will take a year to make with the current state of the code base and the info everything that we're building on top of. "It doesn't seem like anything flows to like a rational sort of plan to make Twitter successful," he says.