I once launched a Facebook IM application using AjaxIM. Everything was beautiful for about 10 days. I went from 90 users to 18K users in 21 days and the whole a

I once launched a Facebook IM application using AjaxIM. Everything was beautiful for about 10 days. I went from 90 users to 18K users in 21 days and the whole application came to a HALT. IMs were taking 5 seconds to get to the other end. I, for sure, did not have the technical ability to make it work and I decided to not invest money into it. We were dumping the DB of IMs every 3 hours, but with IM you are dealing with hundreds of thousands of real-time messages. This is extremely hard. Add to this the fact that each Twitter account has a different graph and your messages go to several people.