The biggest tech winner in the US election is...

Twitter. If Tuesday was a big day for Obama it was also a big day for the people behind the innovative microblogging site where users type in short message updates.

A while ago the site had a tendency to crash and there were worries that the technology was not going to hold up under the strain of the presidential elections.
There have been a special US election feed on the site which had proved immensely popular and as election night passed thousands upon thousands of celebratory tweets poured in.

Here are the numbers from Twitter's own blog.
- Updates increased 46% from previous Tuesday
- Between 7pm and 9pm updates were up 200% compared to same time last week.
And most crucially of all, people signing up to the free service, which has seen rapid growth recently was up 40.3 per cent over the previous week.

The blog says: "Our technical approach over the last several months has been to find the weakest point of the system, fix it so it's no longer the weakest, move to the next weakest point, and so on. This simple technique has vastly improved performance, reliability, and capacity. We've got a lot of work ahead but yesterday certainly gave us hope."

This is one technology that is moving mainstream.

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