it’s funny to think that there is anything valuable about twitter’s code. twitter’s value is in its userbase, its code is useless on its own, not to mention that it’s a fairly simple piece of software in its essence. sure, there are probably interesting solutions in there for the problem of twitter’s scale, but no users, no scale, and it’s not 2009 anymore, we know how to solve “web scale” problems, especially when building from scratch