Twitter seems to be having serious scalability issues, a malaise which plagued the otherwise popular service since its early days. twitter似乎是有严重问题的可扩展性，其中的弊病困扰，否则流行的服务，自成立初期天。

Could this be related to its architectural decision of adopting Ruby-on-Rails ?可这与它的建筑决定采用红宝石-对-钢轨 ？ There was a有一个 rumor传闻 not so long ago that twitter was abandoning Ruby on Rails .并非如此，不久前twitter放弃红宝石对导轨上 。 While it was虽然这是 denied否认 by Evan Williams, he also mentioned that lot of Twitter code was not in Ruby on Rails at this time.由伊凡‧威廉斯，他还提到，很多twitter代码无法在红宝石上轨在这个时候。 Maybe they are progressively moving away from it.也许他们正逐步远离它。

Update: Twitter down again and back up again.更新： twitter再次和备份一次。 Looks like it is going on its limit.看起来好像是对了极限。