Over the past few months, Twitter has focused a lot of time, energy and money on beefing up its infrastructure to improve the reliability of its increasingly popular system.
The results have been encouraging with few appearances by the Twitter Whale, which signified that Twitter’s system was out of system or overloaded.
That said, Twitter is about to face an enormous challenge tomorrow during the U.S. presidential elections. The amount of Twitter activity could hit a record as people enthusiastically live microblog the action. If Twitter can survive the Obama-McCain tsunami, it can probably survive anything.
What’s also interesting is how Twitter – and other microblogging tools – have become such an integral part of major events. Gone are the days when people would gather alone or with a few people in front of their televisions to watch an election. Today, we watch and then immediately share with everybody and anybody around the world.
More: PC World has a story looking at the top 20 election tools while AFP looks at how Internet users are tapping into election coverage.
Twitter’s Next Big Test
Over the past few months, Twitter has focused a lot of time, energy and money on beefing up its infrastructure to improve the reliability of its increasingly popular system.
The results have been encouraging with few appearances by the Twitter Whale, which signified that Twitter’s system was out of system or overloaded.
That said, Twitter is about to face an enormous challenge tomorrow during the U.S. presidential elections. The amount of Twitter activity could hit a record as people enthusiastically live microblog the action. If Twitter can survive the Obama-McCain tsunami, it can probably survive anything.
What’s also interesting is how Twitter – and other microblogging tools – have become such an integral part of major events. Gone are the days when people would gather alone or with a few people in front of their televisions to watch an election. Today, we watch and then immediately share with everybody and anybody around the world.
More: PC World has a story looking at the top 20 election tools while AFP looks at how Internet users are tapping into election coverage.
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