Neverthless, that Twitter is also looking at other sites for future expansion, possibly in northern Virginia, which is a meeting place for a number of major fiber networks.

More expansion will no doubt be necessary for the microblogging company. Its chief executive, Dick Costolo, that Twitter, which now handles some 230 million tweets a day, will add another 26 million members by the end of this year. That equals the total of new members added to the service from 2006 to 2009 combined.

Twitter buying into the East-West strategy should benefit its users, especially those east of the Mississippi.

However, companies like Google, Microsoft and even the maligned Yahoo have a global strategy that they use to nearly eliminate unplanned downtime and service bottlenecks. In the long term, that strategy may be the one Twitter will need to follow if it's going to make its service as dependable as a telephone dial tone and deep six the fail whale for good.

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