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Don't know how they came to this conclusion, if you look at the headers of https://twitter.com its listed as "tfe".

  $ curl -v https://twitter.com
  [..ssl handshake and request..]
  < HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  < content-type: text/html;charset=utf-8
  < date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 11:12:31 GMT
  * Server tfe is not blacklisted
  < server: tfe
  [..body..]
Also interesting to note that they are identifying sites such as "github.com", "dell.com" and "starbucks.com" as all using GWS[1].

[1] http://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/Google-Web-Server



But if you actually click on the dell.com profile, it doesn't. It seems they have some data issues.




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