5 Jul
2009
5 Jul
'09
6:31 a.m.
On Jul 5, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
Is Twitter making a profit or not?
The other consideration is scalability and reliability. Twitter has been subject to numerous feature disablements due to capacity issues, as well as complete outages. Furthermore, Twitter does not appear to be deployed in a distributed, highly-available architecture. The Twitter *aggregation/attention model* is what is of great interest, any merits of the specific service aside. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Unfortunately, inefficiency scales really well. -- Kevin Lawton