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Probably because a Twitter close isn't even close to a complex application. You can build one in React/Vue just as fast as you would without them.


Yeah, it's a common trope. Everyone can create a Twitter/Facebook/Instagram clone in a week or so of intense work. But that's not actually the hard part. What's hard is getting millions of users in the first place and scaling to that magnitude. In that order.




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