Twitter was a big part of our Macworld keynote address coverage today. Thousands of others were also on Twitter for the same thing; just watching the #macworld and #mwsf09 hashtags on Monitter showed 4+ Tweets per second regarding product announcements and demos. When I finally stopped Tweeting and stepped back to take a look at my friends timeline, I noticed that my Tweets dominated the entire page. This is not normal.
Typically the speed at which I Tweet is still a pittance compared to the rate at which 200+ followed Tweeple can fill the stream. Today, however, friend updates from hours prior are just now appearing in my friend timeline. Other users, like @Admore and @Crazeegeekchick, are also noticing the laggy friend timeline issue.
This leads me to wonder: Did Macworld break Twitter? Is it shoving out a massive cache of updates as quickly as it is able? Are buffered Tweets the solution to the fail whale?
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