Twitter warns of possible World Cup traffic-related outages
Twitter, which has suffered a series of outages this week, has warned that there could be more problems amid heavy FIFA 2010 World Cup traffic.
Mr Jean-Paul Cozzatti, a Twitter engineer, said on the Twitter blog that the micro-blogging service's problems this week were due to an internal network being over-capacity.
Mr Cozzatti said Twitter was doubling capacity and rebalancing traffic on the network to redistribute the load.
When Twitter goes down, a picture of a whale — known as the "fail whale" — appears on Twitter.com and Mr Cozzatti said his engineering team was hoping for fewer appearances by the creature.
"You may still see the whale when there are unprecedented spikes in traffic," he said on Friday.
"For instance, during the World Cup tournament and particularly during big, closely-watched matches we anticipate a significant surge in activity on Twitter. "While we are making every effort to prepare for that surge, the whale may surface," he said.
Mr Jean-Paul Cozzatti, a Twitter engineer, said on the Twitter blog that the micro-blogging service's problems this week were due to an internal network being over-capacity.
Mr Cozzatti said Twitter was doubling capacity and rebalancing traffic on the network to redistribute the load.
When Twitter goes down, a picture of a whale — known as the "fail whale" — appears on Twitter.com and Mr Cozzatti said his engineering team was hoping for fewer appearances by the creature.
"You may still see the whale when there are unprecedented spikes in traffic," he said on Friday.
"For instance, during the World Cup tournament and particularly during big, closely-watched matches we anticipate a significant surge in activity on Twitter. "While we are making every effort to prepare for that surge, the whale may surface," he said.
