comment: >
  
  Well they are doing database sharding...
context: This pairs nicely with that Elon tweet, where he boasted about shutting down critical servers and Twitter was still running fine. >
  
  "I'm going to shut down critical servers and things will be fine!!!"
  two hours later
  "S e  T  ngs a e f ne!" >
  
  So, I know you're joking, but in my head I took this way too far...
  I was imagining Twitter actually sorting every letter of every tweet into different databases on different servers.  Because otherwise how would you lose letters if you shit one off.  And then I started trying to figure out how you'd make that work...
  You'd need like, 128ish databases to cover each ASCII character.  And then some incredibly stupid way to put this all back together for displaying.  I thinking some sort of bit mapping bullshit...
  I'm going to build this tomorrow if I can remember this idea.  I'm going to build the world's second least efficient Twitter platform!  This is so ducking stupid that it's the exact kind of thing Id make.  Might have to pair it down though, I don't think my home network or vm hosts could handle that many hosts...
  I'm going to need to be really drunk for this one...