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The Open Source Technology Behind Twitter

Posted by samzenpus on from the look-under-the-hood dept.

caseyb89 writes "If it weren't for open source technology, you wouldn't be able to tweet. Chris Aniszczyk, Open Source Manager at Twitter, shares how open source is vital to Twitter's success. He states that using open source is a 'no-brainer' for Twitter because it 'allows us to customize and tweak code to meet our fast-paced engineering needs as our service and community grows.' Twitter also established an open source office about a year ago to support a variety of open source organizations that are important to them. Aniszczyk will discuss Twitters open source usage in his keynote at LinuxCon."

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  1. open source when it's helpful by manicpop · · Score: 5, Informative

    Much like Google, Twitter embraces open source when it benefits them, even as they are in the process of locking down their API and making the service more "closed." It says a lot about open source that tech companies are finding so much benefit in embracing it as PART of their strategy, but the Twitter platform itself will never be completely open source, because Twitter knows it benefits them to keep it closed.

    1. Re:open source when it's helpful by jmerlin · · Score: 3, Informative

      Also: bootstrap.

  2. Re:Hmmm... by MightyYar · · Score: 3, Informative

    Calling someone a name is not sarcasm.

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