Twitter has
set a new record of 143,199 tweets per second without crashing on Saturday, the
3rd of August. This occurred during an airing of Castle in the Sky in Japan.
Twitter’s
Vice President, Platform Engineering, Raffi Krikorian explained the new
development on twitter’s official blog and also stressing how the mega social
site has stabilized over the years.
He explained
that twitter normally experience an average of 5,700 tweets per second and 500
million tweets daily. He further explained that Twitter’s aim is to make the
service available always no matter what is happening around the world.
In previous
years, this massive amount of tweet would have crashed the social site as it
was seen during the world cup in 2010 when the site crashed many times due to
much traffic.
He wrote that this experience sparked a need
to restructure the service to cope with its increasing popularity.
“After that
experience, we determined we needed to step back.” he said in the post.
He claims
that today, twitter is more equipped to handle such great events.
“We’re now
able to withstand events like Castle in the Sky viewings, the Super Bowl, and
the global New Year’s Eve celebration.
“This
re-architecture has not only made the service more resilient when traffic
spikes to record highs, but also provides a more flexible platform on which to
build more features faster, including synchronizing direct messages across
devices, Twitter cards that allow Tweets to become richer and contain more
content, and a rich search experience that includes stories and users. And more
features are coming.”
Source:
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