ET Desk
Twitter will shift its technical operations to a new US data center later this year to better cope with the rocketing popularity of the hot microblogging service.
Twitter has been bedeviled by outages, most recently on Monday, when users were unable to sign in, update profiles or change background images for more than 12 hours until a software glitch was fixed, according to the service.
"When you can't update your profile photo, send a Tweet, or even sign on to Twitter, it's frustrating," Twitter spokesman Matt Graves said in a blog post late Wednesday.
"We know that, and we've had too many of these issues recently."
Twitter logged record-high spikes in use during the recent World Cup soccer championship in Africa and recently claimed that the service attracts 190 million visitors monthly.
By year's end, Twitter will move its technical operations into a custom-built data center near Salt Lake City, Utah, according to Jean-Paul Cozzatti of the San Francisco-based firm's engineering team.