January 27, 2012
This week we got crushed by the State of the Union speech. We normally get about 30,000 to 50,000 tweets per day in the 2012twit.com database, and our largest server can handle that without any showing any appreciable load. During the SOTU tweet volume exploded. We got 500,000 tweets in about 4 hours. I was […]
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January 20, 2012
We’ve been working on a college football recruiting site called DirectSnap.com for a couple of months, and the most interesting aspect of the technology behind this site is the quality control algorithm I had to develop. Most of the tweet streams we work on, such as 2012twit.com, are based on collecting tweets for either a […]
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