Followers and Followings == FAIL 3 years ago

WTF people?!  Okay, okay.  We know something is up and we’re working on fixing so STFU.  Geez.  You’d think you people depend on this service or something.

Here’s the deal.  We think we know what it is.  We sent a bunch of our engineers on a mad dash up to Portland, OR for OSCON because we’d heard (via our latest acquistion Summize no less) that there were a shit ton of engineers up there with all kinds of ideas on how to “do Twitter right”.

Guess what?  You’re all fucking wrong.  We tried doing that C++ application with a bunch of linked lists and either we don’t know what the fuck we’re doing (hint: not likely) or it turns out Twitter is an even harder problem than we thought.  Can you believe that?!

Amazingly there are some pretty smart people here but it turns out not smart enough to fix Twitter.  Google people offered up suggestions.  FAIL.  Yahoo.  FAIL.  Pony-tailed, bearded guy using obscure databases?  Double FAIL.  As such, we’ve proved that there are no smart people that use or develop open source.

We’re headed to Redmond tonight to hopefully get some knowledge from our MS peeps.  Weez out.