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Comment by teruakohatu | Hacker News Reader

It took me a while to work out that he was saying "7% of recruitment it due to my work" not "I am so amazing I am worth 7% of Stripe's massive engineering team".

Linking to what tweet out of context is probably going to get Patrick a lot of undeserved hate.

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Twitter is an awful product. I will never understand why it became popular, why it remains popular, or its appeal.

Twitter's market share has only shrunk, and their user base has been flat since about 2015. It is "popular" with a very specific group of people but I don't think they've ever topped 350 million human users at any point in their existence, which while not small, but they're not growing, either.

It's popular because popular people like having a platform and audience, and people like hearing from (and maybe interacting with) popular people.

It took me about 30 seconds. It was obvious to me that the tweet was missing context so I had to read the thread. Which wasn't very long to begin with.

This is exactly how twitter is intended to work.

Quoting a tweet out of context is not Twitter's fault.

It sort of is.

The UI does not clearly present the prior tweet in a conversation when linking to an individual tweet. This makes it easy for people to ignore the context since they have to work to see it. Combine this with the preference for using real names and it is easier to make the "look at what an asshole this person is" posts.

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