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By: Twitter deve usar tecnologia de Bittorrent em seus servidores - Twitter Brasil

Twitter deve usar tecnologia de Bittorrent em seus servidores - Twitter Brasil — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:55:47 +0000

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By: american

american — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:58:29 +0000

There’s no need to call for a psychic on this one.

Within months, it will get lawsuits from RIAA and MPAA and other failing craps.

I can see Twitter being the next big Torrent wholr.

Twit a file to users that follows you.

By: Twitter utiliza BitTorrent para la distribución en sus servidores | Adobe User Group Granada

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:39:21 +0000

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By: Twitter stringe accordo con BitTorrent per la distribuzione dei file tra gli utenti | Internet

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:53:15 +0000

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By: Twitter chiede aiuto a BitTorrent « YBlog

Twitter chiede aiuto a BitTorrent « YBlog — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:54:17 +0000

[...] questo motivo e per migliorare la distribuzione dei file attraverso i suoi server, Twitter è ricorso all’aiuto di Bit Torrent ed in questo modo potrà distribuire i file più facilmente risparmiando [...]

By: Joegle » Hand Banana

Joegle » Hand Banana — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:26:25 +0000

[...] bittorrent to transfer files across many [...]

By: supaspoida

supaspoida — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:33:57 +0000

Although someone else mentioned that the source to this is already available, they neglected to provide a link. Here it is: http://github.com/lg/murder

By: phineas

phineas — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:55:26 +0000

so im supposed to offer bandwidth for text that is 99.9% nonsense. no thanks.

By: Nigel Stolting

Nigel Stolting — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:06:18 +0000

Nice to see a company not re-inventing the wheel and re-using a technology that is already available.

By: Twitter utiliza BitTorrent para la distribución en sus servidores @ Blog DDS.media

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:47:56 +0000

By: Pirate Home Page » Twitter Uses BitTorrent For Server Deployment

Pirate Home Page » Twitter Uses BitTorrent For Server Deployment — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:39:30 +0000

[...] Large scale web-services such as Twitter need thousands of servers to manage the flow of updates that are sent out by their millions of users. As a result, keeping all these servers updated with the latest data can be time and resource intensive. To improve the deployment of files across their servers, Twitter is calling in the help of BitTorrent Read More : Twitter Uses BitTorrent For Server Deployment [...]

By: Twitter utiliza BitTorrent para distribuir en sus servidores | MuyInternet

Twitter utiliza BitTorrent para distribuir en sus servidores | MuyInternet — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:54:19 +0000

[...] Se espera que Twitter de más detalles del proyecto en las próximas semanas. Categorías: Noticias, P2P, Redes sociales, Servicios Web, Twitter [...]

By: Mörder-Projekt – Datenabgleich via Bittorrent auf Produktivsystemen at webCONSUL

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:04:34 +0000

[...] – Datenabgleich via Bittorrent auf Produktivsystemen Soeben durfte ich bei Torrentfreak lesen, dass Twitter mit Bittorrent kooperieren [...]

By: Twitter Uses BitTorrent For Server Deployment « blog-me-not

Twitter Uses BitTorrent For Server Deployment « blog-me-not — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:59:00 +0000

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By: links for 2010-02-10 | Stéphane Thibault

links for 2010-02-10 | Stéphane Thibault — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:55:39 +0000

[...] Twitter Uses BitTorrent For Server Deployment | TorrentFreak Twitter is calling in the help of BitTorrent to deploy files across its many servers in a more efficient way. The project dubbed ‘Murder’ is based on the Open Source BitTornado BitTorrent client. Aside from assisting Twitter it is available to other developers at no cost. (tags: 2010 Internet Technology News Twitter BitTorrent Torrent Microblogging WebServer Performance p2p OpenSource LoadBalancing) [...]

By: Twitter userà BitTorrent per distribuire i file tra gli utenti. | TuttoVolume

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:58:45 +0000

[...] a farlo apposta, ora giunge la notizia che Twitter ha stretto una collaborazione con BitTorrent per distribuire in modo più efficiente i file. Il progetto si chiama Murder e si basa sul client [...]

By: Twitter chiede aiuto a BitTorrent

Twitter chiede aiuto a BitTorrent — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:41:58 +0000

By: Twitter implementará tecnología de Bittorrent para la distribución de datos en sus servidores | TekCrispy

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:39:34 +0000

[...] de tweets al mes, con un taza de crecimiento del 17%, también mensual. Así que da gusto leer que Twitter desarrolló una tecnología para distribuir sus archivos a través de sus múltiples servidores de forma más eficiente. Dicha tecnología se basa en [...]

By: SomKen

SomKen — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:28:51 +0000

I can has .torrent file?

By: Terminator

Terminator — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:49:26 +0000

To avoid any confusion, the summary is that Twitter will use bittorrent to transfer data “server to server” only. End users like me and you are not part of the swarm. Any way it is glad to see bittorrent being used for more “legal purposes” :)

By: Wait a sec...

Wait a sec... — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:35:45 +0000

Didn’t Twitter just denounce bit torrent a few days ago?

By: United Hackers Association

United Hackers Association — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:10:14 +0000

HOW is the company BIT TORRENT involved with this open source this article needs make a distinction cause there is a big one if twitter makes a mistake and goes to bram the word will go out and vry few will use it

keep that in mind twitter on your p2p travels the community remembers those like BRAM that screwed people around selling out to warner brothers.

this also might help that open source project update and get modernized and maybe twitter will ask for better encryption like a ssl /ssh tunnel that cant be throttled UNLESS htey wish to thorttle there businesses

By: Twitter utiliza BitTorrent para la distribución en sus servidores | Bitelia

Twitter utiliza BitTorrent para la distribución en sus servidores | Bitelia — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:57:50 +0000

By: neostyles

neostyles — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:29:07 +0000

See, bittorent does have some great legal uses. :)

By: Reasoned Brain

Reasoned Brain — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:24:08 +0000

Jim doesn’t, that’s true. What he suggested is similar to having a multi-core processor (core=server in this analogy) but only ONE core doing 90% of all the work (the ‘central’ server uploading the new version to ALL other cores).

Bittorrent allows the “other” cores to upload, once received a different part of the files/data.

Example with only 3 servers: Server 1 (central) uploads part A to Server 2, part B to Server 3. Server 2 uploads part A (it has grabbed it from Server 1) to Server 3 and Server 3 uploads part B to Server 2… while this happens Server 1 also uploads part C. etc

By: CapnS

CapnS — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:17:51 +0000

Jim: I don’t think you understand how the internet (or BitTorrent’s protocol for that matter) actually works do you?

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:10:20 +0000

Id like to think that the internet will BE bittorrent, bittorrent not just being a protocol, but a way of communication.

There is no reason for there not to be constant communication, its wasted resource. Every machine can pass traffic and share the burden, in the end the world becomes one giant circulation of data and everybody gets whatever they want!

By: Ninja

Ninja — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:04:32 +0000

Wow, pretty nice. In their case they can’t really use the help of their users to distribute the updates as it might open security breaches – correct me if I’m wrong please. But it sure is an idea for reducing the load on, lets say, an online media store. The users could be offered a discount on their subscription if they helped with the distribution using the mp3/flac/whatever they downloaded from the network.

Bittorrent is sweet. The future has been consolidated and has become present. We’ll see more companies following for sure. ISPs might not be that thrilled if the companies start using their clients bw to help though lmao…

By: bigbadgirl

bigbadgirl — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:53:22 +0000

extreme usage of torrenting

By: AMQP

AMQP — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:12:15 +0000

If Twitter needs a good middleware for messaging, there is AMQP.

I have used OpenAMQ in the past, it works like a charm.

By: Annie Moose

Annie Moose — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:34:33 +0000

Glad to see someone finally recognizes the broad capabilities and flexibility of Bittorrent! Pre-Bittorrent, of course, P2P sharing was unwieldy for large networks. But with Bittorrent, it’s a much more efficient way to spread traffic out over a network–and because each of the servers can download from each other, rather than just one central server, it seems like this would definitely reduce “bottlenecks” and increase update speed.

Kudos to Twitter for adding some respectability to a perfectly legal network type and protocol!

By: Walrus

Walrus — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:06:24 +0000

Er. I didn’t mean error correction. Error CHECKING. The only “correction” would be redownloading that piece.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:59:59 +0000

@Joe: Then you end up with a bottleneck at the server distributing the update, which in their case was their git repository. Murder solves this problem.

By: Walrus

Walrus — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:55:59 +0000

File versioning? You do know that bittorrent has extensive error correction, right? The pieces downloaded must match the hashes provided by the tracker exactly. Just layer something over the bittorrent protocol to track what murder clients have and what they need and leave the actual distribution up to bittorrent.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:31:25 +0000

@8 thanks for the mods, it was getting crazy

Good for Twitter and the BT protocol most of all, a positive step forward!

By: SolidNode » Blog Archive » Twitter Using BitTorrent to Speed Servers

SolidNode » Blog Archive » Twitter Using BitTorrent to Speed Servers — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:18:39 +0000

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Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:43:51 +0000

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By: Kampf gegen den Fail-Whale: Twitter setzt auf BitTorrent | Basic Thinking Blog

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:37:23 +0000

[...] enger zusammenarbeiten, um der Tweet-Flut Herr zu werden. Diese Nachricht schlug gerade beim TorrentFreak auf. Angestoßen wurde die Idee von dem Twitter-Techniker Larry Gadea, der dem Projekt gleich [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:27:56 +0000

oh noes quick mpaa/riaa/ifpi/bpi sue twitter there using bit torrent and we all know (if your lead to believe) is illegal.

STUPID BUGGERS.

hopefully this will put the end to myths about bit torrent about time the parasites were put right.

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Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:21:40 +0000

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By: www.eZee.se

www.eZee.se — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:17:13 +0000

Another big boy using BT, not real news in my view – just a natural evolution. I’m surprised TF would take the time to write about it..oh well, I guess BT news is BT news.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:09:53 +0000

this is kind of a dumb idea, it’s much more effective to write a simple app which pushes software updates etc out to all the servers, this way file versioning etc can all be monitored and logged much more efficiently than bittorrent.

They have some of the brightest engineers in the world, and this is the best solution they can come up with? Pretty pathetic!

BTW – RIAA/MPAA will be monitoring Twitter torrent traffic for infringements now :P

By: No

No — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:41:30 +0000

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At this point it is still unclear when Murder will be implemented or released to the public but Twitter is expected to release more details on the upcoming project in the weeks to come.
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It is released and available through the code repository.

By: anoit7

anoit7 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:30:59 +0000

Yeah! Bit Twitter!

By: Stoned

Stoned — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:05:59 +0000

I hope this opens the mind of some, for they to see that BitTorrent protocol only use is not piracy.

And it is a good solution to speed up some things.

Kudos Twitter!

P.S.- I would also love to see Twitter recieving letters from their ISP saying they have been downloading copyrighted material…=P

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:03:25 +0000

Sounds sweet