Starting Viral Content watching the Twitter Data Center Migration Story

At 9:36a PT Mike Abbot posted the Great Migration story.

MONDAY, MARCH 21, 2011

The Great Migration, the Winter of 2011

If you look back at the history of Twitter, our rate of growth has largely outpaced the capacity of our hardware, software, and the company itself. Indeed, in our first five years, Twitter's biggest challenge was coping with our unprecedented growth and sightings of the infamous Fail Whale.

Posted by @mabb0tt at 9:36 AM

I posted my blog post at 10:16AM.

Twitter's Data Center Migration Story on its 5th Birthday

MONDAY, MARCH 21, 2011 AT 10:16AM

At 7p I decided to check on the Twitter Data Center news and saw way more posts/articles than I would expect on a data center migration project.

DataCenterKnowledge

DataCenterDynamics

GigaOm

AllThingsDigital

CIO

SeattlePI (which uses the exact urls I referenced)

All these data center posts without a press release from Twitter, just a post on Twitter’s engineering blog.

And a little help from the Green Data Center blog.

What will be missed by most is the data center story by the Twitter engineering team.

Twitter Engineering

Some of my most consistent readers are media and PR related.

We’ll see when Twitter tells their next data center story and how fast that story spreads.

Thanks for reading Green Data Center blog.