Record World Cup Traffic Slams Twitter

Data Center Knowledge (Jun 16 2010)

1. The 2010 World Cup has lived up to its billing as a watershed event for the Internet, with web traffic from early game easily exceeding previous records from Election Night 2008. The leading casualty has been Twitter, where Tweetstorms during World Cup games have exposed deeper scalability challenges. Traffic spikes over the past week have overwhelmed Twitter’s internal network capacity, and the performance problems are likely to continue until a long-term fix is found, the company said last night, meaning outages and maintenance downtime are likely to continue through the remainder of the World Cup. (Read Full Article)

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