[Retric]

What makes people laugh at twitter is the problem is not that hard, but they make all the classic mistakes.

Every time someone wrote a reply Twitter... this was the most expensive work the database

Sorry, I am going to laugh at people having scaling issues when they use a database like that on a messaging system. There was an essay by PG where as soon as he heard they where using Oracle (or C?) he instantly knew to ignore them for much the same reason.

[tectonic]

And yet, Twitter is kind of hard to ignore.

[gaius]

So was Pets.com.