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Excuse us a moment while we die a little inside, an inevitable result of learning that teen pop idol Justin Bieber consumes 3 percent of Twitter's resources at any given time. Dude even has his own servers.
"Any any moment, Justin Bieber uses 3% of our infrastructure. Racks of servers are dedicated to him. - Twitter employee," Dustin Curtis tweeted.
Gizmodo claims that Dustin Curtis, a designer and blogger, was given his info by a real Twitter employee and that "his tweet is not a joke." But is that really true?
"At the moment, we are not making our user statistics public," Twitter insists.
Fair enough, but if it wasn't true, the microblogging service could have debunked the tweet and still held firm to its policy of not sharing user statistics. If this were an episode of Mythbusters, we'd have to at least rank this one as "Plausible."
For what it's worth, a followup tweet by Curtis claims that Justin Bieber isn't the only one with his own racks, and in fact "Most of the popular users on Twitter have dedicated servers for their accounts."
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