Category: Microblogging

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1. Twitter Down, Overwhelmed by Whales

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jan 20 2010) Microblogging

   Twitter was offline this morning, experiencing its longest sustained downtime since an Aug. 8 outage from a denial of service attack. Reliability has been on ongoing project for Twitter as the service has scaled up to handle growing traffic. This popular microblogging service has been offline for about an hour this morning, according to the Pingdom uptime monitoring service. UPDATE: Looks like the Twitter.com site is available again as of about 7:55 a.m. Eastern time. “We are experiencing an outage due to an extremely high number of whales,” reports the Twitter status page. “A sudden failure coupled with problems in ...
   

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2. How Much of Twitter’s $100M is for Servers?

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Sep 28 2009) Microblogging

   One of the hottest tech stories last week was the $100 million raised by Twitter in a new round of funding, which reportedly values the microblogging service at $1 billion, even though it has yet to generate meaningful revenue. Much of the commentary has focused on the high valuation, but the funding begs another question: Did Twitter raise $100 million because it can, or because it really needs the money?
   

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3. Twitter in ‘Combat Mode’ As Attacks Continue

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Sep 9 2009) Microblogging

   Twitter has been the target of additional denial of service attacks in the wake of a major outage on Aug. 6, but enhanced defenses implemented by Twitter and NTT America have reduced their impact. “We’ve been continually seeing attacks, but I think the public has not noticed because we’ve been mitigating them,” said Kazuhiro Gomi, Chief Operating Officer of NTT America, which hosts Twitter’s infrastructure. “We are definitely in combat mode, but handling it.” Twitter was badly hobbled by the Aug. 6 attack, which also targeted Facebook and several other social media sites. In a recent interview, NTT America addressed ...
   

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4. Twitter Overtakes MySpace in the UK

   Explore Article GigaOM (Sep 1 2009) Microblogging

   Click on the image to get a bigger version of the chart. MySpace, meet the new new MySpace. It’s called Twitter. According to Hitwise, a web traffic intelligence company, Twitter has overtaken MySpace in the UK. In August, Twitter.com became the 27th most-visited web site in the UK, one position ahead of MySpace. The Twitter service [...]
   

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5. Twitter’s Growth Drives NTT Expansion

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 31 2009) Construction , Microblogging

   Driven by the rapid growth of Twitter, NTT America is expanding its data center footprint. NTT America confirmed today that it has leased 15,000 square feet of data center space in Santa Clara, citiing “rapidly growing customer demand” for data center resources. That capacity crunch has been driven by Twitter, which outsources its infrastructure to NTT America through a managed hosting agreement. Twitter experienced 752 percent traffic growth in 2008, but that was nothing compared to the traffic explosion in the first half of 2009, as the microblogging service went mainstream and was widely adopted by celebrities and a growing ...
   

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6. Inside Twitter’s Network Architecture

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 7 2009) Microblogging , Networking

   Barrett Lyon is a veteran when it comes to defending against denial of service attacks, having founded Prolexic, a leading player in defending against electronic attacks. Lyon, who is now CTO and co-founder of content distributon provider BitGravity, has created a detailed network map of Twitter’s architecture as part of an analysis of yesterday attack on social networks. Lyon and Richard Steinnon from Threat Chaos also found that Twitter’s status page (status.twitter.com) is hosted on the same server as an adult site (language warning).
   

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7. Twitter is Latest Victim in Series of Attacks

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 6 2009) Microblogging , Networking

   Today’s denial of service (DOS) attack on Twitter is the latest in a series of electronic attacks this year on major Internet properties, which have targeted large web hosts and domain registrars, and more recently have expanded to prominent social media sites. The attacks knocked Twitter offline for most of the morning, with both Netcraft and Pingdom reporting about three hours of downtime. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone confirmed that the outage was caused by a denial of service attack
   

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8. Twitter Avoids Critical Upgrade to avoid outage during iran elections

   Explore Article Recent Blogs (Jun 16 2009) Microblogging , Networking

   Worst. Timing. Ever. That was one of the many criticisms of a planned hour-long Twitter network upgrade, smack-dab in the midst of unprecedented demonstrations in Iran. The downtime was initially scheduled for tonight U.S. time. That would be morning or mid-day in Tehran. "However, our network partners at NTT America recognize the role Twitter is currently playing as an important communication tool in Iran," notes a recent Twitter blog post. "Tonight's planned maintenance has been rescheduled to tomorrow between 2-3p PST (1:30a in Iran)." Twitter has emerged as an important communication tool in Iran for those challenging the claim that ...
   

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