2012
Twitter Engineering: Improving performance on twitter.com
by 2 othersThe first thing that you might notice is that permalink URLs are now simpler: they no longer use the hashbang (#!). While hashbang-style URLs have a handful of limitations, our primary reason for this change is to improve initial page-load performance.
Les rigolos du web.
2011
Thimbl - Free Open Source Distributed Micro-blogging
OK, so what do I need to make this work?
Finger and SSH. Really.
Nice. Ha non, pas besoin de nice(1).
2010
High Scalability - High Scalability - Twitter’s Plan to Analyze 100 Billion Tweets
What!?
600 Tweets per second!?
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Wow... I'm more than incredibly underwhelmed... I mean I kind of imagined Twitter had all these scalability problems to solve because they had thousands or maybe even hundred thousands of tweets per second.
Heureusement, les places de marché n'ont pas attendu Ruby pour être développées... (hop un lien pour donner un ordre de grandeur (note : mps = messages par seconde)
2009
Twitter Support :: Trouble uploading profile or background images
Twitter is currently tackling some problems with profile images. As of now, people are having trouble with adding new images (they don't upload) or removing images (they don't delete.) Others have seen a sudden shift from their current image to an old image used before.
Depuis deux mois, Twitter a du mal avec l'upload d'images. Une centaine de personnes ayant rencontré le bug se sont manifestées dans les commentaires. Visiblement, c'est difficile à corriger l'upload de fichier en Ruby on Rails.
2008
Seesmic Acquires Popular Twitter AIR Client Twhirl
by 1 other, 1 comment (via)Twitter nous a amené l'agora de SMS... Seesmic va nous refouler de l'agora de vidéos :-)Seesmic just opened for public use but I’ve been beta testing it for a while. It is awful. Sinister pony-tail men with lathered European accents dissecting the deep meaning of their abdomen tattoos. Faded grey people mumbling about something less interesting than the Wal-Mart family portraits on the wall behind them.
I ask myself, do I really want to see bloggers?