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Still 500.

And to think, I nearly based my company on Rails... Not a great advert for what appears on the face of it to be such a promising Framework.




If your company needs to scale to the level of twitter, using rails will be a nice problem to have (it would have got you that far quickly).


They're having problems with their database servers. It has nothing to do with Rails.


I love the mentality here. Thrash TC for posting something they "know nothing about" yet turn the attention onto something else that you probably don't know anything about. Unless you guys have access to Twitters racks, let's save some of the defense/speculation. I'd guess Arrington and Co. probably have significantly better sources than anyone on here.


They announced that it was a DB problem yesterday.

http://twitter.com/twitter_status


If they said it, it must be true!




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