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platform.twitter.com is hosted at Amazon S3 (via an additional CDN).

All S3 files by default can be distributed with torrent, if the URL is appended with ?torrent

S3 servers will act as a tracker and seeds.

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Relevent FAQ from Amazon S3 FAQ page : http://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/#What_is_the_BitTorrent_TM_pro...

Wow, that's amazing. I had no idea Amazon offered that.

I also have no idea when I'll ever use it, but still. Damn cool.

Not only can S3 serve the file as a torrent, if you provide it as a torrent link and have disabled read access to the file, S3 will still serve as the tracker as long as other peers in the swarm have a full copy of the file to serve.

Please upvote this to get it to the top.

That is a cool feature, actually.

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