Is there any correlation between datacenter/server ID and author location? Thinking of a probabilistic forensics technique for fingerprinting users.
This Tweet was deleted by the Tweet author. Learn more
Conversation
Replying to
That's an interesting idea worth checking! I don't think there is since I only see two distinct data-center ids -- but there may be one in Asia / Europe that handle more tweets from that area using one of the data center ids.
Great idea worth investigating!
I just looked at this for a set of Twitter users located in the US and it seems like their content is more or less uniformly spread across machine, and the more people tweet the more different machines serve them. So servers seem to be load-balancing.
4