Microblogging is more like IM and email, so people who are talking about caching and databases and scaling twitter like a traditional web site all miss the poin

Microblogging is more like IM and email, so people who are talking about caching and databases and scaling twitter like a traditional web site all miss the point. This is rare exception, too bad the author abandoned his own attempt at doing it right. I think there's still a chance that somebody other than twitter will be first to general adoption.