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Lots of guessing, hypothesizing, and imagineering for information that is readily available. Here's a start:

http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/04/mysql-at-twitter.html

http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/12/19/how-twitter-store...

http://www.percona.com/live/mysql-conference-2012/sessions/g...

http://www.slideshare.net/yousukehara/introduction-of-twitte...

http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/05/introducing-flockdb.h...

http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/06/Twitter-Architecture

http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/05/introducing-flockdb.h...

https://github.com/twitter