 "Twitter sets a new tweets-per-second record and doesn't crash during the event")
Watch out, folks. There’s a new Twitter record in town! The micro-blogging website has revealed that with 1,43,199 tweets coming in within a single second, a new tweets-per-second record has now been set.
The record came in with the broadcast of a Japanese anime film called Castle in the Sky on August 3. The anime is not a stranger to setting Twitter records. Back in December 2011, the airing of the movie broke the same record with 25,088 tweets-per-second. However, the record today is a pure mind-boggling number.
Spiking up!
Twitter generally sees 5,700 tweets-per-second on an average and 500 million tweets a day. A graph released by the micro-blogging website shows a sudden, sharp peak in its tweets timeline. This particular spike is 25 times greater than Twitter’s steady state, and its no mean feat – both for the film as well as for the website.
What makes this landmark extra delicious for Twitter is the fact that this sudden influx of tweets did not manage to as much as shake the service’s systems. The new record for tweets-per-second went off smoothly and no Fail Whales appeared during it. This event is a far cry from the 2010 Football World Cup that not only shone the spotlight over Twitter for it being an ideal platform for sharing real-time updates, but also the fact that the service needed massive improvements to be able to handle such huge traffic.
Twitter’s services underwent a massive overhaul and restructuring, making it capable of handling such a large influx of tweets now. “We’re now able to withstand events like Castle in the Sky viewings, the Super Bowl, and the global New Year’s Eve celebration. This re-architecture has not only made the service more resilient when traffic spikes to record highs, but also provides a more flexible platform on which to build more features faster, including synchronizing direct messages across devices, Twitter cards that allow Tweets to become richer and contain more content, and a rich search experience that includes stories and users. And more features are coming,” wrote Raffi Krikorian, Vice President of Platform Engineering, Twitter.
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