Can Twitter Be Saved?

I submit that, given the team at Twitter is already working hard at resolving their issues, they don't need much 'saving'.

There's been an awful lot of heat generated in the last few weeks about Twitter, and not much light. In fact, most of the light has come from Twitter themselves, and their newfound openness when communicating about their issues.

The fact that the media considers Twitter news-worthy, and the fact that there are many copycat services available and in development, suggests that Twitter is on to something. I hope that Pivotal is able to help them pursue their discovery.

Agreed. Aside from the whining from self-important, so-called "A-list" types, I think most users don't care about the growing pains and are just as happy to have it working 90% of the time as 100%. This would be different if it were a mission-critical government utility, but right now it's not.

Are the twitter guys explaining their solutions to problems anywhere? I recall DHH saying scale is not an RoR issue, but twitter appears to have scaling issues on RoR.

I have never used Twitter and most of the folks I know don't use Twitter either.

Twitter could throw away everyone using the service now and still be able to market to the millions not yet using Twitter.