Twitter Search Handles A Whopping 1.6 Billion Queries Per Day
Twitter announced this week that they were launching a brand new search, one that would show you not the most recent tweets about a given topic, but the most relevant. And along with this announcement, they revealed some pretty neat stats about just how popular Twitter search is.
The Twitter Engineering blog took a close look at Twitter search’s behind-the-scenes action. They explained that the new search required two new pieces of search infrastructure: relevance filtering and the identification of relevant images and photos.
So, not only did the Twitter search engineering team (which, incidentally, grew from three to 15 since 2008) have to build new infrastructure, it had to do so while handling some massive query numbers.
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