At the end of the day that is a hell of a problem to have as a company!! Only if they can not get it squared away over time and service basically stops, I would much rather have too much traffic then too little!! Any business would.
They will put resources including but not limited to more robust hardware, money, and of course human engineers and ultimately it will be solved.
I do not use Twitter or any of the Facebook's, myspace, etc, etc. I do not even have an account to any of these services but I appreciate how hard it is to scale to an ever growing demand of users and increased traffic.
You will hear some thoughtless morons that have never even seen a data center for a mid-size company handling a couple of hundred thousands of hits pushing maybe 80-90 Mbps who can not even comprehend the type of architecture it takes to handle that many connections and that much traffic.
Again...it is a good problem to have if managed correctly which it appears they are doing just that.
There’s an old saying among traffic engineers about the traffic jams created by road construction projects that are intended to actually ease backups: “It’s gotta get worse before it can get better.”
These days, that seems to also be the rule of thumb at Twitter. (Techmeme)
In an effort to improve stability for times when it’s facing record traffic, such as during the World Cup, the company has launched efforts - both short-term and long-term - to grow capacity to avoid outages in the future. But it hit some snags along the way and discovered “unexpected deeper issues” that led to downtime.
From the post, it’s clear that the company anticipated demand around the time of the World Cup opening - the Internet itself set a new global record for news site traffic, surpassing the night of President Obama’s election victory in the U.S. What they didn’t expect were these deeper issues.
So they’re working on it - and there are actually some details about what’s happening over on the engineering blog. And they say it’s going to get better.
But don’t forget what the traffic engineers say about improvement projects. With that said, Twitter issued this warning:
Over the next two weeks, we may perform relatively short planned maintenance on the site. During this time, the service will likely be taken down. We will not perform this work during World Cup games, and we will provide advance notification.
For real-time updates on site outages or major issues, you can go to our Status blog. For most other problems that you may be having with Twitter, follow @Support.
Consider yourself warned.
