Why twitter goes down. Why it is slow?

Twitter's growing Web traffic represents a manageable load. Rather, the service is getting crushed under a mountain of API calls that's 20 times the number of Web page views. These programmatic requests are from mashups that ping Twitter constantly, and apps that refresh their displays on behalf of users more rapidly than Twitter's Web pages would do on their own.

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Mirim Pal said..

Database is always bottleneck for large we apps. So don’t use database as a processing layer. Apply some indexing like technique to provide data to API Calls. Keep your data in separate indexing files not in database. All the best twitter engineers.

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