This is journalism?<p>"The funny thing is that as absurd and comical as this sounded when the Engine Yard guys told me about it, I've started to think about this as a way to possibly achieve a real technological breakthrough"<p>Technological breakthrough? At the end of the day, it's the http protocol + POST. What breakthroughs are we going to see?<p>140 characters - barely anything useful can be sent in 140 characters for messaging systems. Heck, a unique identifier will take up most of the message.