Tuesday, June 15, 2010

World Cup May Lead to Outages, Twitter Warns

A frenzy of World Cup-related tweeting could cause more outages for Twitter, which has already suffered a number of them recently. Twitter is adding capacity and rebalancing traffic.

A Twitter engineer said that while he hopes there won´t be many sightings of the "fail whale," "You may still see the whale when there are unprecedented spikes in traffic."

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