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Interesting. TextDrive (which turned into Joyent) was one of the first Ruby on Rails hosting options, and Twitter was first built as a RoR app.

The truth is that Joyent bought TextDrive. At Joyent we were developing a big RoR app. TextDrive did great hosting. Jason and I decided to merge.

another fun fact: a lot of the early HackerNews posts were the daily drama of Twitter's RoR struggles.

I kind of miss seeing the Fail Whale.

same!

i also miss their xmpp bot for some weird reason.