jackwilson (True Core Lover): Technology : Twitter has been described as akin to a Web-based Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.[23] The Twitter Web interface uses the Ruby on Rails framework[24], deployed on a Ruby Enterprise Edition rather than a vanilla Ruby implementation for performance reasons. *
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jackwilson (True Core Lover): From the spring of 2007 until 2008 the actual messages were handled by a Ruby persistent queue server called Starling[26] but since 2009 this has been gradually replaced with software written in Scala.[27] The service's API allows other web services and applications to integrate with Twitter.[28] To group posts together by topic 0r type, users make use of hashtags, words 0r phrases prefixed *
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jackwilson (True Core Lover): with a #.[29] Similarly, the letter d followed by a username allows users to send messages privately to their followers. Otherwise, the @ sign followed by a username publicly states the attached tweets are a reply to (or just mention) any specific users (who can find such recent tweets logged in their interface). *
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jackwilson (True Core Lover): In late 2009, the new "Twitter Lists" feature was added, making it possible for users to follow (and mention/reply to) lists of authors instead of following individual authors.. . *
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jackwilson (True Core Lover): Through SMS, users can communicate with Twitter through five gateway numbers: short codes for the United States, Canada, India, New Zealand, and an Isle of Man-based number for international use. There is also a short code in the United Kingdom which is only accessible to those on the *
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