Why is twitter so buggy?
If you ever used [twitter][4] for at least a couple of weeks, big chances are you've seen the [twitter whale][1].

I am now following the [twitter api account][3] and most of their tweets are about some broken feature or not available at the moment. The [last one I just saw][2] is about missing tweets in my time line, which happens pretty often I must say.

But why is that? didn't the think the solution right? they should have been able to fix it by now, right? With all this buzz about cloud computing and huge amount of storage available plus the compute services some providers offer, why are we still seeing errors like the mentioned above.

This is not a question of whether you like twitter or not, I want to understand what the problem is and if people thinks it is an architectural problem (should they throw everything away and start from scratch) or is it a scalability problem, or what...

[1]:http://www.google.com/images?q=twitter+whale
[2]:https://twitter.com/#!/twitterapi/status/26785998673
[3]:http://twitter.com/twitterapi
[4]:http://twitter.com/
Why is twitter so buggy?
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If you ever used [twitter][4] for at least a couple of weeks, big chances are you've seen the [twitter whale][1].

I am now following the [twitter api account][3] and most of their tweets are about some broken feature or not available at the moment. The [last one I just saw][2] is about missing tweets in my time line, which happens pretty often I must say.

But why is that? didn't the think the solution right? they should have been able to fix it by now, right? With all this buzz about cloud computing and huge amount of storage available plus the compute services some providers offer, why are we still seeing errors like the mentioned above.

This is not a question of whether you like twitter or not, I want to understand what the problem is and if people thinks it is an architectural problem (should they throw everything away and start from scratch) or is it a scalability problem, or what...

[1]:http://www.google.com/images?q=twitter+whale
[2]:https://twitter.com/#!/twitterapi/status/26785998673
[3]:http://twitter.com/twitterapi
[4]:http://twitter.com/