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Technical Challenges of Scale at Twitter

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Twitter's Mission Is to Get You Data Really Quickly

Twitter has this celebrity problem where they actually have a whole blog just on Taylor Swift, she released a new album that you know, is doing like phenomenally well. So whenever she makes a tweet, that's a lot of people that need to get that stuff. Twitter does this kind of came up with a strategy they call fan out or basically when Taylor Swift tweets, they actually run out and go and update a bunch of feeds. And that's part of Twitter's mission is to get you data really quickly. They want you to have like low latency up to the minute data so that your feed, if you both follow Taylor Swift, we want to see those tweets coming around the same time

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