Twitter Merges With BitTorrent
Its a great day for all the P2P users, as twitter and bit-torrent join their hands to make the P2P service more efficient.
BitTorrent has very huge amount of data and files across the internet.
twitter and bittorrent
“Murder” as the project has been labeled, is based on an open source. It would help Twitter as well as other developers for free.
Thousand of servers are required in the normal process of flow of updates that are sent to millions of users. Such big scale web-services are in need of the latest updates and that is for sure intensive time consumption.
So Twitter has made the first step in calling for help from BitTorrentto manage these huge files across their servers faster and more efficiently. In the procedure, “Murder’s” purpose will be to save time and resources. Its function will be to transform Twitter’s servers into a large BitTorrent swarm that will distribute file update using the BitTorrent technology. Thus it will not use the bandwidth of Twitter users. The setup is as simple aa the abc’s of torrent. Murder uses a ’seeder’ server where the new files will be distributed to thousands of ‘peer’ servers. Simple and serves the need! Since all servers coordinate in the deployment of the files, it will only fractions of the time it would otherwise take when files are distributed from a central server. That’s the use of the server to server Bit Torrent technology. Larry Gadea from Twitter has developed this ideology and the “Murder” project was then based on the BitTornado BitTorrent client, which was the first client to implement web-seeding. The code is also open to the public and licensed under the free software Apache License.
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It means that the seeding problem will vanished. THat cool idea. P2P guys has great day
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