Didn't know the early Twitter was based on Ruby On Rails. How could I miss it then?
I remember working for the IT consulting company where I learnt about all those frameworks. "Nothing ever comes of nothing..." - this is the quote I used as an explanation I gave myself about what a framework is for a site or anything else based on it.
"...we pay a price about all our choices made..." - this is probably the explanation of the whale the old Twitter showed quite often. XD