# Twitter leaving rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/twitter-leaving-rails/136433>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 2, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/twitter-leaving-rails/136433 "2008-05-02T01:14:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![ADADAD](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@ADADAD](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ADADAD)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/twitter-leaving-rails/136433/1 "2008-05-02T01:14:26Z")

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this is sure to shake up the rails community hard, mainly b/c people  
love  
using Twitter as the RoR prototype to make people feel comfortable. I  
think  
its a lot of overhype against RoR but it is what is is, we will see  
what  
comes of it

> **[Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails | TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2008/05/01/twitter-said-to-be-abandoning-ruby-on-rails/)**
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> We’re hearing this from multiple sources: After nearly two years of high profile scaling problems, Twitter is planning to abandon Ruby on Rails as their web framework and start from scratch with PHP or Java (another solution is to stick with the Ruby...

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**Author:** ![ADADAD](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@ADADAD](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ADADAD)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/twitter-leaving-rails/136433/2 "2008-05-02T01:30:50Z")

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The comment wall is hilarious on that. Everyone’s an expert. Also,  
each person’s language is superior to Ruby and each one’s framework is  
superior to Rails.

Not to mention, judging from the posts, it’s going to be reeeeeally  
easy to fix Twitter so I don’t know what they’re worrying about 😉

ESPNDev

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**Author:** ![ADADAD](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@ADADAD](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ADADAD)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 2:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/twitter-leaving-rails/136433/3 "2008-05-02T02:55:38Z")

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nice, good find. Someone should post that on that techcrunch list.

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Ezra Z. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Author:** ![ADADAD](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@ADADAD](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ADADAD)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 1:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/twitter-leaving-rails/136433/4 "2008-05-02T01:48:57Z")

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Techrunch lies, twitter is not abandoning Rails at all:  
[http://twitter.com/ev/statuses/801530348](http://twitter.com/ev/statuses/801530348)

Cheers-  
-Ezra

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**Author:** ![ADADAD](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@ADADAD](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ADADAD)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 2:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/twitter-leaving-rails/136433/5 "2008-05-02T02:56:48Z")

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Arrington would likely delete it. Wouldn’t want to end the flame war  
too early; might lose too many clickthroughs on his ads. 🙂

–Jeremy

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:55 PM, AD [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> [http://twitter.com/ev/statuses/801530348](http://twitter.com/ev/statuses/801530348)
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> > > The comment wall is hilarious on that. Everyone’s an expert. Also,
> > > 
> > > > people love
> 
> >

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**Author:** ![ADADAD](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@ADADAD](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ADADAD)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 6:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/twitter-leaving-rails/136433/6 "2008-05-02T06:29:44Z")

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On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Jeremy McAnally  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Arrington would likely delete it. Wouldn’t want to end the flame war  
> too early; might lose too many clickthroughs on his ads. 🙂

let’s end the flame by ourselves then  
[Reddit - Dive into anything](http://reddit.com/info/6hvir/comments/) 🙂