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There are legit twitter users with over 12k followers and there are also legit uses of twitter as a micro blogging platform (election night coverage, etc) where this type of burst traffic should be viable within the service.

Twitter needs to figure their architecture out and the use or misuse of the service should not be an issue.

They have a decent amount of vcap and they need to spend it on fixing this horse crap performance.

Posted by RJO on 1 June 2008 @ 7pm

I understand wanting lots of followers — that sure was annoying with Facebook — but even if you want 12k people following you, you don’t need to follow 12k people yourself.
There is just no value in that. It is just taking up read/writes.

If their problems are going to persist for months until the VC dollars kick in — I say penalize the goof balls.

Posted by mb on 1 June 2008 @ 8pm

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