What does akamaihd.net do? [closed]
Solution 1:
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:
