This is likely getting upvoted because <i>it shouldn't take that long to ship a damn emoji picker</i> / <i>this use of resources is why Twitter is in decline</i>, etc.<p>From a QA perspective, an emoji picker, with emoji searching and color setting, is tricker than it looks. For example, which emoji would you expect to see for a search query of "happy"? <a href="http://i.imgur.com/HU3sP7N.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/HU3sP7N.png</a><p>(Actually, why isn't the smiling cat a result for a "happy" query?)
Here's an interesting take on the development of Twitter by Jonathan Blow.
<a href="https://youtu.be/k56wra39lwA?t=448" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/k56wra39lwA?t=448</a><p>I wondered about this before I saw this video as well. For all their dev capacity, Twitter is arguably a product with a lot of problems.
1. Shipping is good. 3,5 years may seem bad, but it's much better than never, which is probably what this guy is celebrating. Having worked in big tech companies, where you basically get nothing done because of broken process and politics, I get why he is happy about this<p>2. lol, 3,5 years is still ridiculously slow. Sure there can be technical difficulties, sure it can be a side project, but that's a really bloody long time, companies are built and make dozens of millions in that time. I could probably build a faster twitter with a good team in that time.<p>It's hard to see which is the stance here, I'm happy for the guy for shipping, but it makes me kind of lol. Our industry is stupid sometimes.
I empathize celebrating a work project accomplishment. On the other hand, I'm perplexed by the dilemma of tarnishing my company's image, given all it's recent tribulations, devaluing my equity as a result.<p>Maybe I'm giving too much weight to single individual's effect on altering public opinion (stock price).