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burgreblast on Jan 20, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Infrastructure Behind Twitter: Scale

I belive it's in the low 100's of millions of tweets per day. I've seen that stat elsewhere

> 14 billion API Do you mean 14B internal, services-requesting-services API requests?

Surely you can't mean 14B API requests from the outside world, can you? I'm scratching my head over how their real user base could generate anywhere near that load.

kingryan on Jan 20, 2017 [–]

As of several years ago the putlic http endpoints would easily do 1M/sec at peak times. Not just api, but web, images, et al.

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