i'm surprised that you chose a technology so similar to one that you had problems with before. especially when the deciding factor seems to have been "it's exciting" rather than "it does the job well". yes, you can argue that "exciting" is important to attract a top-notch team, but then i am not sure why a top-notch team would have problems with twisted (and not have the same general issues with node).

how will node fix the issues you had with twisted?