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Comments on: Twitter reportedly dumping Ruby on Rails

Twitter may or may not be dumping Ruby on Rails. Who cares? There is enough investment going into Rails that any short-term deficiencies in the technology are just that: short-term.

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by tbarrfiveruns May 2, 2008 11:32 AM PDT
Dude, that whole 139 characters thing is a joke.
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by balleyne May 2, 2008 11:56 AM PDT
I don't think comparing it to limiting the length of an email message is accurate because there's no limit on that in the first place. Twitter is tightening a limit that already exists, slightly. A better analogy would be to cut storage limits for your inbox by ~1/140.

Not that it makes it less strange, but I think it makes the analogy more accurate.
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by ssampier May 29, 2008 8:21 PM PDT
Silly, but not much more silly than having more than two gigabytes for email, but yet, you can't send or receive attachments of more than 10 MB.
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