It seems like Twitter is getting yet another black eye, as Duncan Riley reports from TechCrunch.
Twitter has been both a success story and a pain in the ass for the Ruby on Rails community as Twitter is built on RoR. It seems they continue to have scalability issues. If this keeps up people will eventually fade away from the service, and that would be a big smack against the Rails community.
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There’s nothing to do with scalability. Twitter has faced heavy traffic due the Macworld presentation, which everyone was trying to cover. Engadget had the same problem.
That is pretty much the very definition of scalability. If you can’t handle high traffic, you have scalability issues.