Twitter Gets Major Funding, Adds New Data Center

1sockchuck writes "Twitter has announced new funding led by Kleiner Perkins, with reports placing the new round at $200 million for a valuation of $3.7 billion. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said the microblogging service added more than 100 million new accounts in the past 12 months. That kind of growth requires a lot of servers, so Twitter will open a new data center in Sacramento as it begins to operate its own facilities, following a path forged by Google and Facebook."

One question that we all want to know

[santax]

Now, when they get that second server, will we be able to at least get 255 chars in a tweet?

The funding was delivered in the form...

[forkfail]

... of 1,428,571 $1.40 checks, so it'll take a while before they can actually use it...

Says something about the state of things

[thewils]

Consecutive articles on /. $30M for biofuel research, $200M for twitter. We're fucked, but at least we can tweet about it.

Re:Yay...

[Stregano]

There must be like a million better uses for it

coke and hookers?