Twitter.com runs off the API as well.[1] Whilst Twitter does have the odd occasion where it has the "Oops, we did something wrong" it generally works as soon a

Twitter.com runs off the API as well.[1] Whilst Twitter does have the odd occasion where it has the "Oops, we did something wrong" it generally works as soon as you try to tweet again. Considering all of their issues in the early years, they have started to scale really well, they handle over 400M tweets per day[2] & during the recent U.S election they saw a peak of 15,107 tweets per second & 874,560 tweets per minute[3] sure there might be the occasional "Oops, we did something wrong" but its a lot better then the fail whale! [1] http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/09/tech-behind-new-twittercom.html http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/09/tech-behind-new-twitt... [2] http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57448388-93/twitter-hits-400-million-tweets-per-day-mostly-mobile/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57448388-93/twitter-hits-40... [3] http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/11/bolstering-our-infrastructure.html http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/11/bolstering-our-infras...