UAETweets Major Update

  • January 14, 2010
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As many of you have noticed, UAETweets has been acting weird for the past few weeks, missing out on some auto-updates, not adding as many new users as it used to, absence of active users, trending topics, etc.

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All of that was due to serious scalability issues, caused by our previous infrastructure which wasn’t built to handle the unanticipated accelerating growth in terms of users, tweets, and the processing needed to generate what the UAETweets have.

During the past couple of weeks, we’ve completed a partial migration of UAETweets to the awesome Amazon cloud, in order to lighten the load on our servers and have virtually limitless room for future growth.

Starting now, UAETweets will become significantly more stable, and more timely in terms of adding new twitter users, displaying their tweets and displaying

In addition to that, we will be able to roll out some very exciting features over the coming weeks, many of which we’ve been working on in the background and were halted by the previous limits.

Stay tuned, UAETweets journey has just begun!

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