Where's my invite?

Common question I receive by @reply (or rather by mentions now) and Direct Message is, "When will I receive my invite?"

The short and quick answer is I do not know.

The number of users the application can sustain with its current format is still questionable. It's not the number of users but the number of changes that those users followship undergoes. Very popular users are more likely to inhibit the service than people who undergo follow changes in the single digits. The frequency those popular users get their updates is also a factor. Whether popular users will have to be enforced with the policy of getting their updates more frequently so as to distribute their effect on the app's hourly twitter access is debatable. How that can be done in an automated way is another question.

Another question is, given the state of twitter's API, will it come to a point where some users will have to be given certain days of the week they can get stats so as to allow for more users to use the service? These are all questions that need to be answered before all the people in the queue can be given access to the service.