Need some information about the site twitter.com developed using RoR

Rails
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Hi,

This is Santosh Gupta working in Accenture, India as project lead and
J2EE architect.

I need some information about twitter.com. This information I need to
tell my management & team about the usage of Rails in twitter.com and
influence their decision of using Rails in our next project.

Can someone please let me know that:
Approx how many lines of code (of phython/Django) was written
initially to bring up the site?
Approx how many users access the site (per day or month)?
What is the execution Architecture? [ OS, DB, Appserver etc]
How many developers worked to build the site initially and how many
developers work now?
How many months/weeks it took initially to build the site?

Or if you can direct me to some blog or mailing list where this
information is available, it would be of great help.
Hoping for a positive and quick response.

Thanks & Regards,
Santosh Gupta

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Twitter is a Scala app.

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@brian
The backend of twitter was moved to scala from rails because they did
not know how to scale rails back then, the frontend is still ruby on
rails.
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Santosh Gupta wrote in post #961388:

Hi,

This is Santosh Gupta working in Accenture, India as project lead and
J2EE architect.

I need some information about twitter.com.

Then why not ask the folks at Twitter?

This information I need to
tell my management & team about the usage of Rails in twitter.com and
influence their decision of using Rails in our next project.

Twitter is very poorly designed. If you want a good Rails example,
try Ravelry, Hulu, or LinkedIn.

Can someone please let me know that:
Approx how many lines of code (of phython/Django) was written
initially to bring up the site?

Python? Django? Probably 0 lines.

Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]

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On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:34 PM, William D. [email protected] wrote:

On Nov 15, 6:12am, Brian T. [email protected] wrote:

You are correct; I was too terse. The twitter front-end is served up
by Rails, from what I understand, it is now largely a consumer of the
scala back-end and handles very little to none of Twitter’s business
logic.

Who really cares where the data comes from and goes to though?

I believe one Mr. Santosh Gupta did.