> run a contest by the community and judged by the community on how to make twitter scale. There's already been more effort discussing the problem than fixing

> run a contest by the community and judged by the community on how to make twitter scale. There's already been more effort discussing the problem than fixing the problem. Most of the discussion has been based on very little factual data. For example, armchair architects can safely suggest Blub where Blub != Ruby because it is a theory which is unlikely to be disproved and extremely unlikely to be made in isolation.