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Re: A Tweetcar named desire

nater kane — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:21:50 -0000

@chris You're so very right. Most of the folks who I've followed over the past year who were very high volume tweeters, and not close friends, I no longer follow now. Mainly just to reduce the trivial noise many (Robert Scoble, Dave Winer, etc...) generate.

Having built what is now essentially a messaging platform that was initially designed as a <abbr title="Content Management System">CMS</abbr> has put quite a bit of strain on their database(s?).

There was a recent article I read, the link escapes me though, that talked specifically about the CMS vs. Messaging platform differences when it comes to Model design, and that relying on Rails' ease of throwing something together, has left a system that is stuck doing more legwork on the Read than on the Write.

Re: A Tweetcar named desire

Chris Harrison — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:58:47 -0000

You've missed another issue... A lot of the super-users are the most vocal about Twitter stability, but in their rush to add thousands and thousands of followers they've contributed heavily to Twitter's instability. One person with 30,000 followers creates 30,000+ actions each time they send a message that Twitter has to keep deliver and keep track of somehow. Compare that versus a user like me (@cdharrison) that has around 250 followers and 250 friends... each note I send out taxes the system far less.

I think @ev, @biz, et al. have done a pretty damn good job so far keeping a service that is free up and running for us geeks. They should be commended, not criticized, for what they've done.

Re: A Tweetcar named desire

nater kane — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:04:38 -0000

since very few people actually read what i write the meta-noise that i generate here is minimal. friendfeed however seems to be the new champion of meta-noise.

Re: A Tweetcar named desire

Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:37:20 -0000

In commenting on the noise and complaining about it, are you creating meta-noise? :-p