Twitter Tweets Some Big Q1 Stats; 155 Million Tweets A Day Now

Post by wooster » Thu, Apr 07, 2011, 5:49 AM UTC

moe wrote: post #8

AdamTReineke wrote: post #5

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I did see the Fail Whale once or twice last week and my client (TweetDeck) occasionally hits API errors, so it isn't perfected quite yet. But handling 1800 tweets a second and pushing them to real-time streams is no small task.

handling 1800 tweets a second [...] is no small task It's funny how people consistently overestimate that. Actually, yes, it is a fairly trivial task and there's no justification for failwhaling over it when you have money to buy competent developers. Many companies process orders of magnitudes more than that, under much harder constraints and much more complex requirements (think financial industry and telecoms).

Post by moe » Thu, Apr 07, 2011, 1:05 PM UTC

wooster wrote: post #11

moe wrote: post #8

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handling 1800 tweets a second [...] is no small task It's funny how people consistently overestimate that. Actually, yes, it is a fairly trivial task and there's no justification for failwhaling over it when you have money to buy competent developers. Many companies process orders of magnitudes more than that, under much harder constraints and much more complex requirements (think financial industry and telecoms).

It's funny how people who haven't built similar systems underestimate how difficult it is, Mr/Mrs Anonymous Internet Tough Person. Phone companies and financial institutions don't typically have messages which affect millions of accounts, for a start.