Rails does not seem the best language to write essentially a messaging architecture in though. Surely the core of twitter has little to do with the web, and more to do with efficiently passing messages around - something that c or java could do like a walk in the park.
I don't know though, sounds like lots of it isn't in ror already which makes the point a bit moot.
Maybe twitter intentionaly break their system every once in a while now to get some coverage on blogs etc. Much like 'celebrities' release a dirty video or go into rehab.
I would say that all frameworks are libraries but not all libraries are frameworks. A library could be a small chunk of code that helps accomplish one little task, or it could be a huge framework. A framework is basically a large library or collection of libraries for building applications on.
I don't know though, sounds like lots of it isn't in ror already which makes the point a bit moot.
Maybe twitter intentionaly break their system every once in a while now to get some coverage on blogs etc. Much like 'celebrities' release a dirty video or go into rehab.
Oh I'm just kidding :) although...