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Comment by unionpivo

Sure, but nobody is upset if he sees twit 1 min later than someone else, since most of the time you can't even tell, a lot of people would bitch about 1 min latency on chats.

So twitter can afford to deliver those tweets with higher maximum latency than WhatsApp.

And it's scaling when you need to keep low latencies, that really kills you, at least in my experience.

parent unionpivo 4 years ago

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