Twitter Employees Get Google?s 20% Time? For The Entire Next Week

Well this is sort of interesting. Apparently, Twitter has just kicked off something they're calling their "Hack Week". But instead of it being a time when various third-party developers get together to hack on things off of Twitter's APIs, Twitter employees themselves are going to see what crazy cool things they can come up with. A post on their engineering blog outlines this. "We?ll all be building things that are separate from our normal work and not part of our day-to-day jobs," the post notes. This sounds a lot like Google's "20 percent time" ? Google employees are encouraged to spend up to 20 percent of their time working on interesting side projects not directly related to their actual work.

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