Twitter plans to open new data center in Salt Lake City area

Twitter Inc. announced that it will open a new, custom-built data center in the Salt Lake City area later this year. Jean-Paul Cozzatti, the company's engineering program manager, posted a Twitter message at 4:22 p.m. announcing that the San Francisco-based company's technical operations will move to Salt Lake to help keep up with a growing user base that has more than 300,000 people signing up for the social networking site every day. Twitter spokesman Matt Graves said the new center will be Twitter's first custom-built data center and is in addition to the data center in which the company currently has its network and systems infrastructure. The Deseret News