What does akamaihd.net do?

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I see twitter using scripts from akamaihd.net(using noscript). when i go to their website, it represents itself as a cloud company. does that mean twitter is using their cloud service to store tweets?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network – Sathyajith Bhat May 07 '12 at 04:19 — Sathyajith Bhat, May 07 '12 at 04:19
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai_Technologies – jpaugh Mar 10 '20 at 15:31 — jpaugh, Mar 10 '20 at 15:31

score 20 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 12 '12 at 14:41

does that mean twitter is using their cloud service to store tweets?

Maybe. Akamai is an internet giant when it comes to content providers.

They just have a huge, world-wide network to deliver content to end users. Companies pay them money to host their content because they have a massive infrastructure to deliver content anywhere on the planet.

Wikipedia has a nice graphic explaining the concept: enter image description here

What does akamaihd.net do?

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