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Hey Twitter I Have A Few Questions Too

(Posted on  TechCrunch  about 1 month ago)

Lately Twitter has been cleaning house, raising money, doing interviews and actually talking to users. In a blog post last week they did a Q&A session, directly answering questions about Twitter’s architecture. So I have a couple of question… (visit source article)
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