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Twitter prepares for iOS 5 launch

by Kelly Hodgkins Sep 28th 2011 at 12:15PM

The launch of iOS 5 is right around the corner and Twitter is gearing up for an onslaught now that the social network will be integrated into iOS. So how is Twitter preparing to avoid a day-long fail whale when iOS launches?

According to Twitter's engineering VP Michael Abbott, the social network is not panicking about the upcoming increase in traffic. It's been slowly beefing up its servers and infrastructure over the past year. "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," says Abbott in an interview with GigaOM.

And Twitter seems confident that iOS 5 owners will not significantly increase the number of tweets flowing through the network. Even if it does, Twitter can handle the load as it is already processing over 230 million tweets per day, up from 60 million last year.

Abbott also confirms that, even with mounting pressure from Facebook and Google +, it's not going to change the premise of its network anytime soon. Twitter will remain focused on the "simplified experience" we all know and love.



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toddrick

I sure hope there is a way to disable/hide this.

September 29 2011 at 10:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
T-Will

How about Facebook integration. I've never been able to get "into" Twitter, mainly because only about 2% of my friends use it, while 90% of them use Facebook.

September 28 2011 at 2:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
pete

More importantly, is the Twitter community prepared for all the millions of additional useless tweets?

September 28 2011 at 2:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brian Michael Hite

Best part of the entire article:
Abbott also confirms that, even with mounting pressure from Facebook and Google +, it's not going to change the premise of its network anytime soon. Twitter will remain focused on the "simplified experience" we all know and love.


I love the changes to Facebook, but Twitter is definitely in its niche.

September 28 2011 at 2:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jason

Twitter may be able to handle the flow of tweets, but I know they throttle API calls. I tried to log into a website using my Twitter account, no dice. The login window said Twitter was "over capacity." Checking the site though, everything was up and running. Seeing as how a lot of sites are moving to using/allowing Facebook and Twitter credentials, downtime for API calls isn't really an option.

September 28 2011 at 1:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Andrew Wood

Since twitter is integrated into iOS 5 that means Facebook is integrated too if you know what to do. Go to the twitter app on facebook.com. Allow it to access your Facebook account and link them and allow twitter posts also on Facebook. Now, when you tweet out of iOS 5s built in services, your post will be on Facebook as well as any links or images. ;)

September 28 2011 at 1:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
toddrick

I sure hope this can be disabled. I have no interest in (flawed by designed) Twitter.

September 28 2011 at 1:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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