Ex-Twitter engineer credits X's growth to the long-delayed Android rewrite
Scobleizer · x · 2026-10-21
Former Twitter engineer ptraughber says the X Android app is now much better — a rewrite that sat on the old Twitter roadmap for years but never happened — and suspects much of X's recent growth comes from it. Elon Musk quote-posted confirming the Android rewrite was 'a big deal' after the app 'was really bad for such a long time.'
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