Blog Author @Todd

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Infrastructure Surviving the Brazilian Reality TV Surge that Pushed Twitter to the Edge

By on Monday, 15 June 2020

Twitter’s traffic has had a dramatic increase over the course of 2020. South American traffic peaked at roughly 3x our available capacity. We describe how we survived.

Infrastructure #ExpandTheEdge: Making Twitter Faster

By on Monday, 16 September 2019

Introducing Twitter’s expanding edge network, Google PoPs, and the Control Tower: Twitter’s Traffic Mapping Service.

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