• CNet, Thursday, July 22, 2010 1:28 PM

In several blog posts this week, Twitter addressed its ongoing service outages, including one on Monday that left many users unable to sign in or update their profiles. Now, reports CNet, the popular microblogging service said it plans to open a "new, custom-built" data center near Salt Lake City, Utah, later this year. "Twitter will have full control over network and systems configuration, with a much larger footprint in a building designed specifically around our unique power and cooling needs," the company's engineering blog noted.

"Importantly, having our own data center will give us the flexibility to more quickly make adjustments as our infrastructure needs change." As for the recent problem, Twitter said that "our users database, where we store millions of user records, got hung up running a long-running query; as a result, most of the table became locked." Without making any explicit guarantees of outage-free tweeting, the company is clearly determined to provide users with a more consistent, reliable service.

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