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Social networking giant Twitter has announced that it is to move into its own data centre later this year.
The company has revealed that the facility is being built in the Salt Lake City area to cater for the rapid growth of the microblogging service.
Jean-Paul Cozzatti from Twitter's engineering team explained why having its own server racks in a data centre is so crucial to the firm.
"Importantly, having our own data centre will give us the flexibility to more quickly make adjustments as our infrastructure needs change," he said.
"Twitter's custom data centre is built for high availability and redundancy in our network and systems infrastructure. This first Twitter-managed data centre is being designed with a multi-homed network solution for greater reliability and capacity."
One problem that has affected Twitter in recent months has been the frequency of downtime in the service.
This has often occurred when large volumes of users are checking their updates and has meant that feeds are not updated.
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Last Updated: 23/07/2010 16:44
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