Twitter Will Get Its Own Data Center

[1SockChuck]

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/04/16/twiter-will-get-its-own-data-center/

[davidu]

My understanding is that this is, in a word, wrong.

Equinix, Switch and Data, TelX, perhaps. Leaving managed services, perhaps. Building their own, no.

[strlen → davidu]

Right, this is a mis-nomer. They're going from a managed service to leasing a datacenter or leasing space (several rooms) within a datacenter. Facebook went from leased space, to leased datacenters to building their own.

[spitfire]

Only a thousand tweets(writes) a second. I found that interesting. So their entire infrastructure exists for propagation and search.