http://www.java-community.de/ Keep it simple, stupid! en Serendipity 1.3.1 - http://www.s9y.org/ http://www.java-community.de/archives/151-A-tale-of-a-Tweet.html Communities http://www.java-community.de/archives/151-A-tale-of-a-Tweet.html#comments http://www.java-community.de/wfwcomment.php?cid=151 1 http://www.java-community.de/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=151 info@mhaller.de (Mike Haller) What happens in the first minute after you tweet?<br /> <br /> 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:<br /> <br /> <a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.java-community.de/uploads/MyTweetAnalyzed.png'><!-- s9ymdb:155 --><img class="serendipity_image_center" width="524" height="78" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.java-community.de/uploads/MyTweetAnalyzed.png" alt="" /></a><br /> <br /> The first thing happening within seconds is that <a href="http://www.jongales.com/blog/2010/04/14/whats-twitterbot0-1/">Twitter's own bot</a> (<tt>Twitterbot/0.1</tt>) performs a request to see if the URL is valid. The IP <a href="http://www.us.ntt.net/about/policy/whois.cfm?searchstring=128.242.241.133">128.242.241.133</a> 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 <tt>HEAD</tt> command instead of <tt>GET</tt>), perhaps to resolve redirects from shortened URLs.<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.java-community.de/archives/151-A-tale-of-a-Tweet.html#extended">Continue reading "A tale of a Tweet"</a> Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:25:45 +0200 http://www.java-community.de/archives/151-guid.html