Report: Justin Bieber Has His Own Twitter Server Racks
Report: Justin Bieber Has His Own Twitter Server Racks
Posted 09/08/2010 at 5:50am
| by Paul Lilly
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Excuse us a moment while we die a little inside, an inevitable result of learning that teen pop idol Justin Bieber consumes 3 percent of Twitter's resources at any given time. Dude even has his own servers.
"Any any moment, Justin Bieber uses 3% of our infrastructure. Racks of servers are dedicated to him. - Twitter employee," Dustin Curtis tweeted.
Gizmodo claims that Dustin Curtis, a designer and blogger, was given his info by a real Twitter employee and that "his tweet is not a joke." But is that really true?
"At the moment, we are not making our user statistics public," Twitter insists.
Fair enough, but if it wasn't true, the microblogging service could have debunked the tweet and still held firm to its policy of not sharing user statistics. If this were an episode of Mythbusters, we'd have to at least rank this one as "Plausible."
For what it's worth, a followup tweet by Curtis claims that Justin Bieber isn't the only one with his own racks, and in fact "Most of the popular users on Twitter have dedicated servers for their accounts."
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johnm1971
September 08, 2010 at 8:18pm
I think this is simply a sad testament to our world today. It's just sad.
squarebab
September 08, 2010 at 7:10pm
in all important conversations. No, really. I'm being totally serial.
Exarkun1138
September 08, 2010 at 12:02pm
This article is on MaxPC's site because......why? Bieber is a talentless fool, and so are those who are infatuated with this joke of a "star". He sucks. His so-called "music" sucks. And he's about as intelligent as a rock. This sets a new low for MaxPC and what they post!
Blaze589
September 08, 2010 at 11:06am
Is a majority of that traffic from ignorant teenage girls or pedos...? Just a thought...
mattyk1822
September 08, 2010 at 8:27am
Pathetic... but what I want to is if twitter has to have a dedicated server for each high profile/high traffic user, how in the world are they supposed to make money?? That's crazy
jgrimoldy
September 08, 2010 at 7:52am
Who cares?
Justin Bieber is in the midst of his 15 minutes. If Twitter had been around in the 70's/80's, Sean Cassidy and Leif Garrett would have had their own servers.
Every generation has their cherubic, effeminate teen idol. The current 'tween generation is no different. Only the way that his message reaches the masses is different.
Caboose
September 08, 2010 at 7:20am
Open bottles full of water and other electroconductive elements!
Neufeldt2002
September 08, 2010 at 6:43am
Well, I just died a little just now. The one site I thought for sure would not have this talentless kid on it, has ruined my hope for a site that would never have him on it.
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