On the Apple website in the "Portfolio" (Mac), a page dedicated to Twitter appeared . It turns out that in the office of the Twitter company there are only poppies and macbooks. All personnel (slightly less than 30 people) work on them too.
The Twitter engine is also made using the Ruby on Rails toolkit, which comes bundled with Mac OS X. All programmers are required to have the latest version of Mac OS X. Many of them use the TextMate code editor, which exists only on the Mac platform. During meetings, twitter programmers launch Campfire group chat (it is also available via iPhones).
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Designers are testing the site under Safari and Firefox, and if necessary, launch Windows on a virtual machine right on their Macs.
Many photos from the office of Twitter - under habrakatom. Apple cites this Twitter as an example of a business based on Mac computers, on Apple technologies, and even in line with the ideology of the Apple Company. In the article “Twitter. The triumph of humanism ”states:
“Twitter is a minimalistic communication tool, yet very powerful;the same can be said about Mac computers that embody beautiful design, simple elegance and at the same time incredible power and flexibility. ”