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Twitter Gets Major Funding, Adds New Data Center

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the power-up dept.

1sockchuck writes "Twitter has announced new funding led by Kleiner Perkins, with reports placing the new round at $200 million for a valuation of $3.7 billion. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said the microblogging service added more than 100 million new accounts in the past 12 months. That kind of growth requires a lot of servers, so Twitter will open a new data center in Sacramento as it begins to operate its own facilities, following a path forged by Google and Facebook."

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  1. One question that we all want to know by santax · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now, when they get that second server, will we be able to at least get 255 chars in a tweet?

  2. Re:Yay... by dummondwhu · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, it surely makes no sense to grow as much as possible when the opportunity presents itself because it's going to all come undone at some point. We might as well hide under our beds instead of going to work. Hell, I know the work I'm doing now is going to be a useless piece of shit in a decade, so why bother?