Twitter: grabbing defeat from the jaws of success « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger – Annotated

tags: twitter, friendfeed, scalability, reliability

• Why is FriendFeed seeing this growth? Well, for one, it hasn’t gone down since I’ve joined it. It was built from the start to scale, which after I met the team I understood why: two of the founders of FriendFeed started Gmail and Google Maps, so I’m sure they’ve learned a few tricks about making sure services don’t go down from Google