Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

Twitter realizes infrastructure cost savings after bumpy ride

November 1, 2023
Philbert Shih

Social media platform Twitter, now known as X, shared some interesting data points about the changes...

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Tesla said to have taken over Twitter capacity at NTT GDC data centre in Sacramento

August 1, 2023
Jabez Tan

Media reports indicate that Tesla recently leased data centre capacity at the NTT GDC (formerly Ragi...

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Twitter reported to be behind on cloud bills; playing hardball to cut cloud commits, but not taking opportunity for strategic infrastructure thinking

March 6, 2023
Philbert Shih

Media reports indicate Twitter has not paid its AWS cloud bills for what could be several months now...

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Twitter encounters performance issues

February 13, 2023
Philbert Shih

Twitter suffered an outage last week that left users unable to use the service. ...

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Twitter closes Sacramento data centre; use of cloud unclear, but could be the basis of new architecture, strategy

January 4, 2023
Philbert Shih

Twitter is said to have closed its data centre in Sacramento, California as it continues to look for...

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Elon Musk’s infrastructure cuts at Twitter looking to already have impact; just tip of the iceberg

November 22, 2022
Philbert Shih

Media outlets are reporting that various infrastructure issues have already started to arise at Twit...

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Data centre management team seeing layoffs at Twitter amid infrastructure reduction efforts

November 9, 2022
Philbert Shih

Data centre management personnel at Twitter are among the cuts that have already been made, accordin...

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Elon Musk looks to improve bottom line by cutting infrastructure costs; why this is problematic and unrealistic

November 8, 2022
Philbert Shih

New CEO Elon Musk in trademark bombast, and perhaps without thinking things through very clearly (al...

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Extreme heat shuts down Twitter’s Sacramento data centre

September 20, 2022
Vivian Kong

Twitter’s Sacramento data centre went offline on September 5th from the extreme heat conditions in...

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Twitter expands partnership with Google Cloud; multi-cloud choices for features

February 9, 2021
Philbert Shih

Twitter confirmed an expanded partnership with Google Cloud. ...

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Twitter to expand use of AWS cloud as it scales and seeks to improve performance

December 28, 2020
Philbert Shih

Twitter confirmed that it will use the AWS cloud to support Twitter timelines. ...

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Twitter migrates parts of infrastructure to Google Cloud

May 10, 2018
Ainsley Woods

Twitter has made the decision to move parts of its cold data storage systems and Hadoop compute clus...

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