New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How hard would it be for him to commission his own Twitter clone?

Ask HN: How hard would it be for him to commission his own Twitter clone?
2 by ogou | 3 comments on Hacker News.
How much would it cost? How soon to acquire decent development team? Wouldn’t new technologies and language/platform options make it easier? Since he has all kinds of resources in a PAC, what would it take? Seems like a straightforward thing to build based on all the “build your own Twitter” tutorials I’ve seen.