WWDC Casualty: Twitter, Of Course*

Peter Kafka | June 9, 2008 2:55 PM

Twitter users, and Twitter critics, can't be shocked to have seen this at 2:43 pm est:

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The caveat: Just about everyone in techland seems to have struggled with WWDC/iPhone traffic. (All things considered, SAI seems to have weathered the storm nicely. *Knocks on wood*). And we're big fans of Twitter's new "semi-transparency" tactic, where they acknowledge and discuss the technical issues they're facing, in some level of detail, on their blog.

Still: Twitter knew this was coming, Twitter talked about the contingency plans it had for this, and encouraged users to Tweet away. And now it's dead, again.

UPDATE: It's back! As of 3:23pm et.

UPDATE2: According to Twitter, we were part of a small minority (4%) who ran into problems "some time afer Steve Jobs keynote" (ie. when traffic was heaviest, because Twitterers were Tweeting about $200 IPHONE OMG!!!). "We Made It!" writes co-founder Biz Stone.

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13 Comments

frank said:
Goes to show that Twit has not learned anything from their past disasters. With the exception of serving up a "we're down, sorry".

dwight said:
It is very hard to fix these things once you have an architecture and production system and business under high traffic. Rewriting the whole system would fix it but I can't imagine they have time to if it is growing fast.
I bet! So, Dwight: Let's play a game -- you're in charge of Twitter. What do you do?
frank said:
I'm not an engineer but I did sleep at a Holiday In Express last night. My two cents.

Start by:

1) Reading about clustering mysql databases http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/white-papers/mysql_wp_cluster_cge_business.php

2) Make a couple of temporary tweaks but stop enhancements on old platform. BUILD new platform!

3) Outsource to a Russian engineering team. BUT, have two full time product managers on-site


dwight said:
@Peter It's hard to say without knowing the architecture but the first thing is -- don't hit the database on any high transaction request or operation. Instead, implement some proprietary server than can perform the needed operation thousands of times per second per server.

And shard/partition.
Jimmy Morris said:
> SAI seems to have weathered the storm nicely.

Oh, what a coinkydink, so did, http://www.nobody-visits-this-site.com.
Hah! Touche. We didn't get Twitter level traffic. But we certainly did spike during WWDC.
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