Twitter is making efficient use of BigData concepts. The first technology that Twitter uses to manage the data at a large scale is the Hadoop. By means of Hadoop, Twitter is using the concept of Distributed Storage. Hadoop clusters are running both compute and HDFS(Hadoop Distributed File System).

Twitter has multiple clusters storing over 500 PB of data. The biggest cluster of Twitter is over 10K nodes. Twitter runs 150K applications and launches 130M containers per day.