There has been some serious issue with Twitter as the micromessaging service has been down for over an hour now. The best part, they as usual are still determining the reason behind it and will response shortly. Now we all know what really does this shortly imply; relax, take your time off Twitter and do something else for shortly basically is a replacement by default for at least an hour. It happens, many big sites would off times, Gmail to name one but Twitter is always the winner.
I’ve heard from various sources that the whole thing is built on top of mysql, which is pretty scary in my experience given the volume of tweets these days.
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