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Twitter yesterday announced several major infrastructure changes that it would roll out to its site in the coming weeks on the Twitter Engineering blog. The changes are all aimed at optimizing speeds on Twitter, not only for displaying pages to users, but also when writing tweets. According to Dan Webb, Twitter’s Engineering Manager,  the company [...]
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Hashbangs (Dan Webb) -- why those terrible #! URLs are a bad idea. Looks like they're going away with pushState coming to browsers. As Dan says, "URLs are forever". Let's get them right. I'm fascinated by how URLs are changing meani... Read Post

Twitter has unveiled the first major redesign of its homepage in the site's four-year history. The relaunched site, which will be rolled out to users over the next few weeks, will give tweeters a better, faster experience, say execs... Read Post

Twitter has just posted up a missive on its engineering blog that goes over a bunch of changes it has made to speed up the site. Among those are eliminating the much... Read Post