Amazon has been recommending products based on past purchase and browse data for some time. More recently, Facebook has been suggesting users who you may want to add as friends. Now twitter is adding a suggestions for you feature based on the people you follow. A few more details from Techcrunch.
Jul 10
Cassandra is an open sourced distributed database that’s part of the Apache project. It was originally developed at Facebook. Twitter has announced that they will continue to use MySQL to store tweets but will be using Cassandra to develop a real-time analytics capability. Read the rest in the Techcrunch article.
Mar 13
Techcrunch has taken a look at the value of the traffic it is getting from Twitter. While not as valuable as the initial set of users it gained from Twitter, these new users are still driving traffic.
Here’s a similar look for another website.
Mar 13
Twitter has been getting a lot of publicity recently. So where do all those users go after Twitter? Hitwise has the answers. The majority of traffic was directed to social media sites like Facebook and MySpace.
