Twitter is, of course, about to become deeply baked into iOS 5, and that’s going to drive a lot of traffic to the micro-blogging service’s servers. So what is Twitter doing to get its servers prepared for the rush of new traffic? Injecting them with radioactive super-server serum?
The answer might surprise you: not a damn thing.
According to Twitter’s VP of Engineer Michael Abbott, Twitter’s pretty comfortable with their server capacity, and think it can handle iOS 5.
“During the last nine months, there’s been more infrastructure changes at Twitter than there had been in the previous five years at the company,” said Abbott, who joined Twitter in May 2010. “So that whether it be the death of bin Laden, or someone announces a pregnancy, we can handle those issues and you’re not seeing a fail whale.”
Ironically, I’ve seen a fail whale in recent memory, so I’m not quite as confident that Twitter is so robust as they’d have us believe. I guess we’ll know soon enough though.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
8 responses to “Twitter: Our Servers Are Super Jacked And Ready To Handle iOS 5”
Twitter? What’s that?
I removed Twitter from my phone because I just don’t use it anymore. None of my friends do – we all use Facebook and some are moving to Google + instead.Â
seriously, every day I see the whale or get a timeout on the twitter iphone client. Their network is not up to the job IMHO. Just last week I was blogging about how it was not up to the job
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I think Twitter is banking on iOS 5 making them popular again.Â
I think Twitter is banking on iOS 5 making them popular again.Â