ojbyrne, No doubt about it I don't know the details of the technical impls of Twitter in the early days -- I only became aware of it when it's usage started ex

ojbyrne, No doubt about it I don't know the details of the technical impls of Twitter in the early days -- I only became aware of it when it's usage started exploding and the "fail whale" became such a common occurrence. No knock to the Twitter team, if that was just hardware scaling issues from the get-go, not much they can do about that. The reference to the comment was more for the cute anecdote more than anything.