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How Twitter Is Re-Engineering to Address Always-on Usage

  • Thursday, July 29, 2010

Twitter is developing a new architecture to meet our always-on, real-time demands — a move other web startups should watch and learn from.

Heavy Twitter users connect to the site like it's an IV drip, and the result is information overload for both users and Twitter itself. But now the company is developing a new architecture to meet our always-on, real-time demands, and these modifications might just be something other consumer web companies should watch and learn from.

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