Twitter as an application server

As much as Twitter was a powerful communication and social applications in question is still a relatively simple Web application. As part of the new competition which is supported by Engine Yard, Ruby on Rails developers have the task of Twitter into your own application server. This competition could be interesting in terms of what could prove to services like Twitter-a could be used instead of the traditional system for transferring messages, such as IBM MQ Series or AMQP. The end result should be a combination of application servers, games, phone games and service-oriented architecture.