We’ve started offering video support, and our first tests with longer videos failed, due to speed issues.
We have a 30Mb video (854x480, 1:51 duration), hosted on AWS S3 in Ireland.
Uploading it to Facebook in repeated tests takes about 12 seconds, using the FB PHP SDK.
Uploading the same video to the Twitter media/upload endpoint consistently takes 170 seconds (using Abraham’s twitteroauth PHP SDK).
Given it takes an additional 10-15 seconds before the media/uploads STATUS returns state = “succeeded”, this means it takes over 3 minutes for our script to complete.
I’m worried how long it will take for a 140 second video at 1280x720 resolution?!
Any comments as to whether this is normal, or could be improved (by us, or future Twitter updates)?
