Background
Following the news and ongoing discussions about Twitter lately has been like watching a car accident repeated over and over again. You try to turn away and ignore the carnage, but the sheer horror of it is too much to avoid.
There have been the multiple outages – now a Twitter standard – a lost database followed by another similar occurrence, with Twitter announcing:
“We just lost a database about 5 minutes ago and this has severely impacted the site.
We’re working on recovering from this now.”
followed by
“We’re experiencing a database problem …