They ditched the effort to switch the status store to Cassandra though.
http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/07/cassandra-at-twitter-today.html

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On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 18:10, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <
zn...@borasky-research.net> wrote:

> Yeah - lots of them to choose from, although Twitter has invested a fair
> amount of time in Cassandra and Hadoop/Pig.
>
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> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
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> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul
> Erdos
>
>
> Quoting Gabriel Harriman <mynameisg...@gmail.com>:
>
>  Oh wow, I like the NoSQL data store idea.  =)
>>
>>
>> On Sep 29, 2010, at 3:55 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>>
>>  Quoting mynameisgabe <mynameisg...@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>  I've been googling like crazy and searching the streaming api docs for
>>>> the answer to this question: Where would I find the latest definition
>>>> for json objects returned by the stream?  Specifically I'm looking for
>>>> field names, data types and max lengths (if available) that will be
>>>> returned. I'm using the filter tracking several keywords.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Gabe
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't think I've seen anything like that - Twitter tends to  announce
>>> format changes on this list, but I don't know that there's  a "reference
>>> document" anywhere. When I write Streaming tests, I  usually just grab
>>> whatever comes down the pipe and stash it away as  text, or parse the JSON
>>> to a Perl or Ruby object and "flatten" the  resulting hash. Of course, I'm
>>> just generating CSV - more advanced  users might simply be using a
>>> leading-edge NoSQL data store. ;-)
>>>
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>>> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
>>> http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb
>>>
>>> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul
>>> Erdos
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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