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		twelve40 on Oct 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far Wikipedia (a feature-rich site) is operated by 500 people. Twitter, with roughly the same measly feature set it had 15 years ago, is operated by 7500 people. Maybe some "brain drain" would not be a bad thing?

metadat on Oct 28, 2022 [–]

They aren't comparable in any meaningful way. They have quite different classes of problems, not to mention the scale of Twitter completely dwarfs that of Wikipedia.

twelve40 on Oct 28, 2022 | [–]

>the scale of Twitter completely dwarfs that of Wikipedia

In what terms? Can you share some numbers maybe?

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