Site implementation

I recently got set up on Twitter. I’ve been hearing about it and scuttling around it for a while now. I’ll preface this by saying that I’ve only been using this for a short while, so I may just not have found some stuff out. So far I’m digging it. The concept is very simple, sms for web. That’s it. Create a user and post a message in 140 characters. Everything about the service (API’s, indexing, twibes etc) is built around this. The website layout is simple and clear, the creators are obviously exponents of the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) philosophy. There is the ability to customise the look of your homepage, follow people, find friends, edit your profile and search your tweets (the name given to your messages). This is one of the sites that is held up as a standard bearer for the Ruby on Rails people (alongside basecamp). Site uptime and capacity has been called into question. I’ve seen the “too many tweets” page now once to often in the two or three weeks I’ve been using it. (more…)