Twitter’s infrastructure has been under a lot of scrutiny in the wake of its
capacity problems [1] during World Cup Tweetstorms, where the service has struggled to keep pace with up to 3,000 messages per second. Seventy five percent of that traffic comes through third-party apps via the Twitter API rather than the Twitter.com web site, according to Twitter’s John Adams, who provided an update on the company’s operations Thursday at Velocity 2010. Here’s a video of Adams’ presentation, which runs about 22 minutes.
For more, see our coverage of Adam’s
presentation at Velocity 2009 [2]. For additional video, check out our
DCK video archive [3] and the
Data Center Videos [4] channel on YouTube.
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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[1] capacity problems: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/06/16/twitter-struggles-with-world-cup-traffic/
[2] presentation at Velocity 2009: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/06/23/twitter-using-metrics-to-vanquish-the-fail-whale/
[3] DCK video archive: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/data_center_videos-index.html
[4] Data Center Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/DataCenterVideos
[5] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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