It has so far.

might not be hard to do if they have watched & learned about architecture

maybe if they had servers that didn't suck like twiFAIl

until u gain more followers...

they made some infrastructure changes pretty promptly on the weekend so if that response is any indication it bodes well?

i failed to fail

shocked that it's holding up as well as it has. I've only noticed very minor semi-downtimes so far, but OTOH, Twitter has *way* more users

plurk to be reliable and believes it will turn out to be so. or at least i hope so. so, yeah!

lets hope so!

I actually give it 1 chance in 3.

Or more to the point how is plurk going to scale ? I'm very interested as to why they use python. Let me think Googleapp uses python too ?!

it's all to do with how many users, twitter is getting hit because it's getting popular. I'd like to see how Plurk scales when it gets hit

anyone know what platform they're using here? please tell me it's not ruby.

oh wait n/m. i see the python thing. python = encouraging.

we'll see how it scales now scoble has his name back

Come on look up twitter's architecture on high scalability.com. It's a kiddies system. Plurk is threading tweets here which is more load

I recogn plurk is handing us real well at the moment but will have problems

hehe. all the images on the scalability.com home page are broken. guess it didn't scale.

dougclinton is way too clever highscalability.com

haha funny stuff

the question actually is, is plurk actually more useful than twitter...

that

well now that plurk is taking some of the traffic from twitter, it should be interesting to see what happens with both services.

if not, now that you're here, they can blame you for outages

if you can't, I recommend hari-kari.

its python vs ruby

that it will be more stable

plurk to be more stable, they seem to be coping with the sudden influx at the moment

plurk would perform better than twitter

I put my money on Python over Ruby anyday performance- and scale-wise.

we will find out if there is some big news event that everyone starts talking about

WWDC?

IM is not working, it worked for while but now it is offline

Hope so!

wondering what will happen if plurk follows twitter's history. hope the guys knows the load

w2k7beta not only that for the same amount of users as twitter, plurk will have to work 2-3s as harder due to greater functionality offered

I sure hope so

shaf A lot depends on how it's engineered. Twitter would be very scalable if they'd designed it as a messaging system, not a CMS.

ianbetteridge. You took the words right out of my mouth. Message queues, message queues, message queues

plus, of course, fitter hamsters to run in the wheels that power their servers!

so far so good but the load is nowhere near twitters yet

that it is so too early to tell. They haven't released their API yet. When they do, we will see.

mahadewa plurk is already budging at the seams. A good indicator to check is to see if their IM bot is up. If it is... the load can cope

so far it has

doesn't hold out much hope as the userbase gets bigger

he has faith in this platform. It's doing a lot more work than you realise.

at this pt, I think yes. but I cannot say for sure if scob manages to pull in >20K followers and having >20k+ plurking at any one time.

scob if he know the hardware used for plurk

I fink so. Hey scobleizer why won't you approve mah friend request, man?

so far so good. i think since they do not have all the developer API hits it just might survive and scale.

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can't get Twitter right now.

Throw the bones.

yes because they don't have SMS and IM. i think plurk has a smaller update foot print vs twitter.

yes.