Twitter's Michael Abbott discusses Mobile at GigaOm Mobilize.

TWITTER AND ENGINEERING FOR MOBILE

Michael Abbot is a Valley legend in mobility, with stints at Palm and HP, among others. He now leads engineering at Twitter. Om talks to Michael about how Twitter's commitment to mobile and the Twitter ecosystem will shape the platform and what considerations he has to make in creating the perfect platform for sustaining a mobile experience and third-party developer ecosystem.

Moderated by:Om Malik - Founder, GigaOM
Speakers:Michael Abbott - VP Engineering, Twitter

Here is the data center related comment, making more infrastructure changes in past 9 months than 5 years.

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Avoiding the failwhale: Abbott tells @om Twitter's made "more infrastructure changes in the last 9 mo than the previous 5 yrs" #mobilizeconf

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Twitter VP Engineering Michael Abbott: "We're not a social network, we're an information network." #mobilizeconf #cnet

To give you an idea of scale.

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45% of tweets come from mobile and we're seeing north of 230 million tweets per day - @mabb0tt #MobilizeConf