Twitter Paper

Tyler Brown

      Twitter is an amazing way to communicate with people without being face to face with them. You are able to follow people all around the world and even with celebrities and are able to see what they are doing and what they are going to do. Many people use twitter to broadcast events and parties that are going to happen soon that they are hosting. Some use twitter to communicate with friends and many just use twitter as a means to keep in touch with what is happening in the world currently.

      The website has made many architectural changes andalso their url link. Twitter has changed their site layout many times, introducing their current trending bar on the side to see important tweets in many different topics that many people tweet. Twitter also designed their error message screen as eight orange birds carrying a whale in a net saying “Too many Tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.” This message was a big change because of the standard freezing or error message page they designed their own.

Twitter also has changed their programing that they used to create their website from MySQL which is a shared data website to “Ruby on Rails” framework which is more private and also provides them with an easier and more user friendly way of editing or re-engineering of their website. Having over 500 million users and over 340 million tweets a day, Twitter has a main goal of making their website as user friendly and as compatible as possible to be sure to please their users. Twitter has introduced an iPhone app, an iPad app, and Android apps to be sure that people are able to use their product at all times.

Twitter based their website off of many different social media networks such as Flickr and has many qualities of social media like Facebook and MySpace. These qualities are being able to share information and events/ things you’re doing. Twitter also has made many changes in their page management. This means they have made it easier for users to travel between pages with ease and less complications. This change has also enhanced the connection between the URL and the information that is on the page.

     The technology that Twitter uses in JavaScript. With this technology they are able to control and change many different aspects of their website. They use many different JavaScripts for many different tasks that they have the website controlling. Some of these scripts are: jQuery, Mustache, Labjs, and Modernizer. These scripts basically control the layout and the functionality of the website Twitter. 
https://blog.twitter.com/2010/tech-behind-new-twittercom
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2013/09/24/twitter-deals-blow-to-nasdaqs-tech-ipo-dominance/