7 Comments and no one with anything interesting to say. Sad times at Hacker News. Fan out of messages is one of Twitter's greatest challenges. When looking a

7 Comments and no one with anything interesting to say. Sad times at Hacker News. Fan out of messages is one of Twitter's greatest challenges. When looking at the compromise one has to make with the CAP theorem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem ), Twitter previously chose to jettison Availability, hence the fame and recognition that the Fail Whale received. They have since decided that Availability was more important to them than Consistency. I had simply attributed the inconsistency in the messages I'd received and the conversations I'd missed to the number of followers/follows I'd grown to, but I guess I'm not surprised to see that this is a broader issue.