Twitter continues to grow, and its infrastructure is growing along with it. The popular microblogging service recently surpassed 100 million active users, and is expanding its data center network to keep pace.
Back in December we reported that Twitter had leased data center space in Sacramento, a surprise move that reflected a shift from its previously announced plans to operate a new facility in Salt Lake City. So what happened to the Salt Lake City...
Twitter has completed a major data center migration and expansion, the company said today. The infrastructure expansion will help the fast-growing microblogging service manage its dynamic growth, which has seen traffic scale to more than 140...
The Mobile World Congress is set to kick off next week in Barcelona, Spain, at a time when the mobile industry continues to experience dramatic growth.
C7 Data Centers said this week that it has opened a new 65,000 square foot facility in Bluffdale, Utah with an anchor tenant in place. Local reports say the tenant is Twitter, which has announced plans to open a new data center in the Salt Lake...
Twitter will partner with C7 Data Centers on its new data center in Salt Lake City, according to local media. C7 is a regional data provider specializing in the Utah market, where it operates four facilities.
Twitter will build its first custom data center in the Salt Lake City market, which will allow the microblogging service to better manage its growth. The announcement also reinforces the attractiveness of Salt Lake City as an emerging data center...
Seventy five percent of Twitter's 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.
Twitter was down for nearly 90 minutes this morning following a briefer outage overnight. But overall reliability has improved, with uptime of 99.8 percent or better for 2010 thus far.