Facebook and Twitter speed up the sending of data with BitTorrent

Nowadays, when many people have forgotten about its wonderful advantages and others have become part of the ill-intentioned discredit trend led by those who fight piracy, P2P technology gains predominance among leading companies worldwide. Facebook and Twitter are some of the companies that, using BitTorrent in particular, revived peer-to-peer in favor of their processes and achieved an increase of up to 750% in the file exchange speed between their servers.

Twitter’s engineers, led by Larry Gadea, are concentrated in Murder Project and have made huge time savings in data transfer rate between servers by means of torrent technology. According to Gadea, since they started using BitTorrent, exchange processes that used to take 40 minutes now take only “12 seconds”. This is a very important achievement, especially if we consider that in a company everything is measured according to its profitability.

But not only Twitter has revived P2P, which is known worldwide for the popularity that programs like µTorrent, Azureus, BitComet or BitTorrent itself achieved. Facebook also supports this business trend towards speeding up information exchange between servers. Systems engineer Tom Cook, the specialist spokesman of the company that has grown the most lately, stated that the company has been able to afford real problems with web servers since Facebook started using BitTorrent technology to transfer code to them.

Thanks to the new use given to this technology, which is far from that controversial use criticized by legislators and opponents of piracy, two giants have demystified any kind of campaign against torrents and BitTorrent technology, and have cleared the way for many more companies to choose this system. In addition, this may be a breath of fresh air that can make programs like µTorrent, Azureus, BitComet, BitTorrent, etc. be valued again, since they have lost popularity to new download managers such as JDownloader or VDownloader, among others.

Cooperative and commercial, P2P technology comes back to the competition, this time with the help of BitTorrent, and does battle with its main virtue: its ability to speed up the data transfer rate exponentially between servers (or PCs, in the case of using it at home) so as to save time and money, of course.

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