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		rugger on June 1, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter responds to Techcrunch about its scaling i... Why Twitter, being a glorified IM, is not moving to an IM architecture like http://www.ejabberd.im? Telecoms have solved their availability issues with Erlang. Why reinvent the wheel?

wanderingmarker on June 1, 2008 [–]

I heard that Twitter does use ejabberd for a bunch of things, including its "fire hose" stream of all messages. Anyone care to confirm?

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