The thing to recognize about Twitter is that they are blatantly incompetent at everything related to their core business. It's actually 140 bytes, not characte

The thing to recognize about Twitter is that they are blatantly incompetent at everything related to their core business. It's actually 140 bytes, not characters, except when it isn't: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/9d9d16d55e2e1e67 http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/brow... Even after fixing their db/cache/queue infrastructure to not fall over in normal use, they still can't handle a DoS attack at all! They peer exclusively with the highest-latency and least-connected Tier1: NTT/Verio (incidentally, so do fellow idiots OpenDNS). The business side is in fantasyland, as shown in the documents leaked to TechCrunch. Evan Williams has no idea what he's doing -- Blogger was pure dumb luck, it had already effectively died when it was bought and resurrected by Google. I don't know how Alex Payne keeps himself sane in that kindergarten.