This post was written by Jody Jonnson
Twitter members exchange an astonishing number of updates every hour, ranging from the maddeningly trivial to the mildly. Members like the service because it lets them stay connected with friends without having to think about technical details such as their friends’ instant-messaging handles or which cellular carrier they use. Twitter is a sophisticated, device-agnostic, social message routing system that nobody realizes they need until they try it. The guts of Twitter is a system that quickly matches new messages coming in from members with the followers.



