We had a similar experience with Twiddla. It just plain handled all the traffic that TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, LifeHacker and 100Shiki could throw at it, and a

We had a similar experience with Twiddla. It just plain handled all the traffic that TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, LifeHacker and 100Shiki could throw at it, and all the traffic that came from winning SXSW too. Never moved the CPU over 15%. The strange thing is that it was almost exactly the same magnitude of traffic that stopped Twitter dead in its tracks a year earlier, and subsequently gave them a ton of media attention. Sounds like maybe there is some strategic benefit to falling down under load in a spectacular way!