Much to my chagrin, someone has identified why Twitter matters.
(sigh.)
I admit defeat.
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Twitter has the RubyonRails framework behind it. Any thoughts on the technology?
Well… my opinion is pretty loose on RoR at this point. I’m not a developer, so I don’t know a huge amount about the technology either.
It enjoys quite a lot of developer enthusiasm, but I’ve yet to see it appear in any sort of truly large enterprise-scale application in any really meaningful way. If RoR developers were hoping that Twitter would make a great case study, I’m afraid that the site’s performance and scalability issues may have given RoR a bit of a black eye.
Lastly, IMO Twitter is not so much a business as it is a feature. I imagine that someone will purchase it soon and would probably rewrite the core application infrastructure in a more enterprise level system. Just my two cents.