so fruji is interesting. everytime i shut it down (database issues, twitter api changes, etc.) and turn it back on, people start flocking to it immediately after, and it grows from 10 signups a day to 150 a day quickly. that's awesome. payments are coming in as well, drafting new (more expensive) account types for corporate users looking good and so forth.

but i've had a couple of really popular a-listers sign up, won't name them here, but you all know them. and after i had to tell the 5th over 1M+ follower person that it'll take more than a few days to scan their account (run analysis) based on twitter's api rate limits, it just feels terrible.

i thought i'd just lock out people with accounts over 500k (can you imagine?!), it'd make a lot of things easier.

twitter has been very responsive and i've been able to submit a couple of bugs with them successfully. but i'm really worried this one gets shut down and i do not even have the tiniest chance of doing anything about it.

i'll keep going with it. but it just runs all by itself now. a very smart, distributed system, i just receive payment notifications.

edit: one thing about twitter: i can not spend any of the payments i receive. if twitter shuts me down tomorrow (they likely won't), i have a lot of people who paid me for a yearly account and it's money i need to refund. so that's locked up credit at this point until the year expires.