The Twititon site allows Twitter users to start petitions or ‘Twititions’ for something which they are passionate about.
The main site uses PHP, built around the Zend framework. The site initially ran on SQL Server, but has been moved over to MySQL when a new server was secured. As there are over forty-five thousand twititions and over a million signatures on the site, database structure and maintenance was key.
The homepage includes AJAX “more” drop downs that load in top twititons. This is done via Ajax to reduce database load, and the data is condensed at hourly intervals.
Key social media links are provided on individual twitition pages, and you can look through all the twitter users who have signed the twitition to date.