I take back what I said yesterday.

Last night, a developer from Twitter wrote in a Q&A on their blog that the service goes down “generally when ‘popular’ users - that is, users with large numbers of followers and people they’re following - perform a number of actions in rapid succession.”

It’s basically a big F-U to the most popular Twitterers.

Now I know it must be frustrating for the folks over at Twitter to have all of these “popular” users calling them out on a daily basis. And however ridiculous it may seem for a single person to have 20,000+ followers, this is the state of their technology. Blaming their users is bad call, especially the ones that have the strongest voice. Bad Twitter.

They need to think before they talk and work with their users instead of against them. Sheesh.

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