TweetDeck has added the ability to handle high velocity tweets, a step that could help the application work under the weight of trending topcis.
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If you happened to have set up a TweetDeck column to filter tweets with the "#Debate" hashtag during any of the recent presidential or vice-presidential debates, you may well have had the same experience I did: the application crashing under the weight of thousands and thousands of posts per second.
With Twitter becoming a bigger and bigger part of mainstream culture, there are an increasing number of big events that generate huge numbers of tweets, and today, the microblogging company announced it is attempting to address the dynamic of TweetDeck buckling under when those events generate too much traffic.
In a blog post this morning, Twitter said:
To enable high-velocity columns to run smoothly [we] developed a method of measuring the number of tweets e... [Read more]
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