Every second you blink, Twitter gets 600+ per second new Tweets during non-peak hours. This goes upto 900 per second during peek times, of Earthquake, Apple events.
Serving Millions and billions of tweets everyday is all to hard for a normal web application. Twitter is built on some scalable programming architectures that makes it work with a charm.
Here is a brief video of How Twitter was created highlighting contribution of each developer and Programming language/platform. (Credits to Ben Sandofsky)
Evolution of Twitter
Legend:
Ruby, JavaScript, Scala, HTML/CSS/Images, Misc, TestCases
Remember to Switch to HD (720p)
Related: YouTube is world’s most popular Video portal. It serves around 1 billion views and several Terabytes of data everyday which accounts to 11,574 views per second . Find out What Powers YouTube
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