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Discovering Who To Follow

With more than a hundred million users on Twitter, there are sure to be at least dozens of accounts out there that will reflect your interests. The trouble is finding all of them. Today we’re beginning to roll out a simple, but powerful new feature to help address that — “Suggestions for You”. The algorithms in this feature, built by our user relevance team, suggest people you don’t currently follow that you may find interesting. The suggestions are based on several factors, including people you follow and the people they follow.Read more…

Trialling Twitter At The Speed Of "Wow!"

These days you hear a lot of talk about “The Real-Time Web”, with instant delivery of information to your desktop from across the globe. But in reality, many services are not actually operating in real-time. Take the example of most desktop Twitte…Read more…

The Power of Git: Revealed!

As we burn down the home stretch toward the release of TweetDeck for Android, our development team is operating at maximum capacity. Recently Max gave a talk at Betaworks about how we keep such a well-oiled machine moving. In addition to being our…Read more…

Wei, Konbanwa, Hello

Excellent progress has been made by our localisation team and we are now looking for more translators to join the following languages: Chinese Traditional Japanese If you’d like to get involved, we ask that you be fluent in written and spoken Engl…Read more…

Twitter & Performance: An update

On Monday, a fault in the database that stores Twitter user records caused problems on both Twitter.com and our API. The short, non-technical explanation is that a mistake led to some problems that we were able to fix without losing any data.Read more…

Reliability

When you can’t update your profile photo, send a Tweet, or even sign on to Twitter, it’s frustrating. We know that, and we’ve had too many of these issues recently.

As we said last month, we are working on long-term solutions to make Twitter a more reliable and stable platform. It’s our number one priority. The bulk of our engineering efforts are currently focused on this issue, and we have moved resources from other projects to focus on it.Read more…

Room to grow: a Twitter data center

Later this year, Twitter is moving our technical operations infrastructure into a new, custom-built data center in the Salt Lake City area. We’re excited about the move for several reasons.Read more…

A Global TweetDeck FollowFriday #FF

Having spent the past hour or so diving into our referrer logs for tweetdeck.com (#nowitsaparty) I was surprised to see the diversity of our top referring twitter acounts for the past 7 days. So in a kind of blog-related pseudo FollowFriday I just…Read more…

The 2010 World Cup: a Global Conversation

2010 World Cup: a Twitter timeline

[image created by @miguelrios]

During the 2010 World Cup, the world watched together — and they shared their experiences in a real-time, global conversation on the Internet.Read more…

Murder: Fast datacenter code deploys using BitTorrent

Twitter has thousands of servers. What makes having boatloads of servers particularly annoying though is that we need to quickly get multiple iterations of code and binaries onto all of them on a regular basis. We used to have a git-based deploy system where we’d just instruct our front-ends to download the latest code from our main git machine and serve that. Unfortunately, once we got past a few hundred servers, things got ugly.Read more…

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