Twitter

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Social Message

    140 Characters

Follow friends 

Notification

Open APIs

Clients - TwitterFox, Twitterific, Snitter, Spaz, Tweetr, TinyTwitter, Jitter

Behind Twitter

• Ruby on Rails
• Mongrel cluster
• Starling MemCache
• Master/slave MySQL
• Erlang ejabberd

Stability

• Stable but not scalable

Scale

เทียบกับ Bittorent (twit / bit)

10,000 user

30 min announce interval = 55 : 8 req/s

Why Twitter

• Leave messages in mailbox
• wait for read/reply or
• Call/SMS/IM to notify

IM

• wait for online

TwitSocial Message

    140 Characters

Follow friends 

Notification

Open APIs

Clients - TwitterFox, Twitterific, Snitter, Spaz, Tweetr, TinyTwitter, Jitter

Behind Twitter

• Ruby on Rails
• Mongrel cluster
• Starling MemCache
• Master/slave MySQL
• Erlang ejabberd

Stability

• Stable but not scalable

Scale

เทียบกับ Bittorent (twit / bit)

10,000 user

30 min announce interval = 55 : 8 req/s

Why Twitter

• Leave messages in mailbox
• wait for read/reply or
• Call/SMS/IM to notify

IM

• wait for online

Twitter

• Tweet to IM, to SMS and/or to e-mail (Cool!!!)

IRC and Twitter

• IRC
  
  • Per Channel broadcast
  • Join/part/kick/ban
  • Direct message
  • Online only
    • web
    • IM
    • CLient
• Twitter
  • Broadcast
  • Follow

IRC and Twitter

• IRC
  
  • Per Channel broadcast
  • Join/part/kick/ban
  • Direct message
  • Online only
    • web
    • IM
    • CLient
• Twitter
  • Broadcast
  • Follow