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I like making fun of Twitter as much as the next guy, although in all fairness when I saw this graph I decided to give them a little more credit. They're facing

I like making fun of Twitter as much as the next guy, although in all fairness when I saw this graph I decided to give them a little more credit. They're facing ongoing, unbounded growth. I can't claim to have handled that kind of scaling, let alone handled it without a hitch. http://alexa.com/siteinfo/twitter.com http://alexa.com/siteinfo/twitter.com (make sure to set the timeframe to 'max' to see what i'm talking about)

moe 18y ago
They're facing ongoing, unbounded growth. ...on an app that consists of a solved problem (pub/sub). Cry me a river. Or better yet, give me a million dollars and I'll build you a twitter that doesn't fail. In 60 days. You'll just have to bring the users.