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The challenge of dealing with such a huge number of users has been highlighted by hiccups suffered by some other social-networking sites. Twitter was beleaguered with scaling problems for some time and became infamous for its “Fail Whale”–the image that appears when the microblogging site’s services are unavailable.
In contrast, Facebook’s efforts to scale have gone remarkably smoothly. The site handles about a billion chat messages each day and, at peak times, serves about 1.2 million photos every second.
Facebook vice president of engineering Mike Schroepfer will appear on Wednesday at Technology Review’s EmTech@MIT conference in Cambridge, MA. He spoke with assistant editor Erica Naone about how the company has handled a constant flow of new users and new features.
See Also: Facebook Passes 65 Million Active Mobile Users (9/3)
More than 65 million people now actively using Facebook on their mobile devices — a significant increase from 20 million just eight months ago.
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Source: Technology Review
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