On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Stuart <stut...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Much as I respect Twitter and the great people who work there, I don't > buy that this would place too much demand on their servers. They > already use Memcached extensively, and this would be a pretty simple > addition to that data store.
For that very reason, I'm not sure it makes sense for third parties to collaborate on a single-purpose distributed store. There are user/account properties that Twitter won't implement, at least not until there's a lot of demonstrated value. In other words, the developer community could collaborate on problems that have marginal value to Twitter in the short run. Nick
