Twitter fever causing server meltdowns
Just as speculation was heating up that Twitter is considering abandoning its Ruby on Rails framework for PHP or Java, it hit another big service downtime snag this afternoon and into this evening.
Interestingly and not surprisingly, chatter about Twitter switched over to Friendfeed, which does a lot of business – and quite well at that – in aggregating Twitter posts anyway.
If people are looking for an excuse to simply switch over to Friendfeed, this could be the kind of the thing to send them over the edge. I don’t think that will happen – at least not anytime soon – as the two services compliment each other pretty nicely and, more importantly, most of the “early adopter set” have been on Twitter longer and therefore have spent a lot of time and energy building up friend networks there.
Hopefully, Twitter will resolve its ongoing technical issues soon enough and can then continue to reap all the rewards of hyper growth.
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