[25.06.2008 first posted on silicon republic]
‘What are you doing?’ Getting your third round of financing if you are the US micro-blogging site Twitter, which yesterday received a substantial investment led by Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, with his firm Bezos Expeditions.

The entire investment is to the tune of US$15m, according to Michael Arrington of http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/22/twitter-closes-third-round-of-financing-from-spark-capital/”>TechCrunch, bringing total funding up to US$20.4m.
Joining Bezos as the newest member of the Twitter investment team is Bijan Sabet from Spark Capital, a venture fund based in Boston, Massachusetts.. Sabet will also sit on the firm’s board of directors.
“Bijan Sabet and his partners at Spark Capital made a big impression on us. Bijan has a strong sense of where Twitter is heading and sees our service as a new form of communication with the potential to have a real impact in the world,” said Twitter co-founder, Biz Stone, on the official Twitter blog.
But what next for Twitter? Is this funding going to sort out its considerable teething problems where features are routinely disabled due to ’stressing out’ or being way over capacity, or when every second refresh of the Twitter homepage seems to give an error message, again showing a lack of scalability.
Just take a look at the Twitter