twitter olympics crash

Can Twitter handle the Olympics?

Yesterday afternoon, the day before the Olympics opening ceremony at around 4.45pm, the Twitter servers crashed. On the official Twitter blog, they commented: “I wish I could say that today’s outage could be explained by the Olympics or even a cascading bug. Instead, it was due to this infrastructural double-whammy. We are investing aggressively in our systems to [...]

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