Last Friday and this Monday twitter was down for maintenance jobs. It was interesting for me to find tasks Twitter programmers were doing so I searched and found Twitter status blog .

My interest grew and I continued searching for facts about Twitter development. And here I found one interesting interview  with Twitter development team members.

Main facts about Twitter from this article:

- Firstly Twitter was designed to run on Ruby on Rails technology;

- Step by step Twitter team ports services to Java Virtual Machine – based Scala language;

- Developers call Twitter a communication service that allows people to share information in 140 characters or less. Not a social network…

- Twitter started as a hack at a company called ODEO;

- Twitter developers experience very few problems when updating system;

- Developers approved that practice is the way to learn new technologies. When interviewer asked about how begin programming Scala Twitter system engineer answered – just do it.

Jonas