Yup, it’s bullshit. Here’s Daniel Ek’s response

What about curl and wget? Telnet?

Solr is a great search engine. It won’t help you with the crawling, but if you manage to get the data into Solr you have a come far.

I drove to the Swedish province Värmland (known for fostering quite a few rally drivers). During the drive to get there, I could see how the ETA ticked down a few minutes every hour. While driving in Värmland, it was the opposite. The ETA ticked up, even while speeding a little.

That is wildly different depending on location and number of guests