Fail Whale Being Replaced?

Just noticed that Twitter wasn't showing Fail Whale anymore. Instead I got a fail whale, fail bird, fail cloud and fail something:

Summize Acquired by Twitter

Twitter has acquired Summize, a search engine for tweets and conversations. Summize.com is already resolving to search.twitter.com.

I was recently introduced to Summize by Dan White of CafeMom and have since loved the service.

“The deal started with a conversation with Fred Wilson about how conversational search can evolve into navigation, about how important navigation becomes for UGC as you go mainstream — it concluded with the deal that was announced this morning. Betaworks is now a twitter shareholder, and excited to be one.”John Borthwick, partner at Betaworks

Congratulations to Summize, Twitter and Betaworks teams on making a perfect acquisition. Also congrats to John Borthwick who is a partner at BetaWorks.

Twitter's Meager Architecture?

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch demands answers to some tough questions from Twitter. He potentially exposes Twitter's architecture implying that Twitter may be running on a grand total of three MySQL machines.

“Do you really have a grand total of three physical database machines that are POWERING ALL OF TWITTER?”
For those out of the loop, Twitter has lately been experiencing some serious disruptions in service.