A tale of a Tweet
Posted by Mike Haller
on Tuesday, June 8. 2010
at 21:25
in Communities
What happens in the first minute after you tweet?When you post an update to your Twitter status (engl. to tweet) which contains a URL, there is going to be some automated reaction from the network. Let's examine what happens after I've tweeted the following:
The first thing happening within seconds is that Twitter's own bot (Twitterbot/0.1) performs a request to see if the URL is valid. The IP 128.242.241.133 is hosted at dedicatedserver.com, an NTT company located in San Jose. The data center seems to be the same where Twitter itself is hosted. They do not retrieve the contents (they're using the HEAD command instead of GET), perhaps to resolve redirects from shortened URLs.
