Facebook announced the opening-up of Friendfeed real-time technology

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On July 22, September 11, Beijing time, according to foreign media reports, Facebook announced on Thursday that the company has made Tornado open-source technology, a recently acquired social media aggregation website Friendfeed.

In a blog post published by Facebook executive David Recordon, Tornado can process thousands of connections at the same time and is very suitable for developing real-time Web services, its advantage lies in speed and processing of a large amount of concurrent traffic.

Bret Taylor, Facebook's product director and co-founder of FriendFeed, said Facebook decided to make Tornado an open source technology because it wanted other developers to develop real-time Web services, this is part of its open source code plan.

Currently, any user can download Tornado for free. Facebook says the company wants developers to use Tornado to develop Web services.