Dare Obasanjo has connected all the dots behind the Twitter problems, and noted that the management failure there could sink the company into the same pit that Friendster fell into:

Recently the folks behind Twitter came clean on the architecture behind the service and it is quite clear that the entire service is being held together by chewing gum and baling wire. Only three MySQL database servers for a service that has the I/O requirements of Twitter? Consider how that compares to other Web 2.0 sites that have come clean with their database numbers; Facebook has 1800, Flickr has 166, even Wikipedia has 20. Talk about bringing a knife to a gunfight.

Kind of explains why I keep seeing this:

Dare relates this to the NY Times article on Friendster, where the management team there ignored the technical issues because they were clearly less relevant than "growing the business". Well - it looks like the geniuses behind Twitter have made the same mistake - they are wildly popular, but living on the edge - and I expect that someone is about to eat their lunch.

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