title: How is Twitter's MySQL database architecture designed? Try your best
body: <p>No one knows. And even if you work at Twitter, you probably won't let us know the secret.</p>
  
  <p>So, let us all post our theories on how this communication tool database is designed!</p>
  
  <p>It definitely can't follow the standard replication architecture, right?  It's got to do some sharding, partitioning, etc, etc.</p>
  
  <p>Let me know what you think!</p>