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This has had over 250k votes in the first three minutes. Thats insane! I can only imagine the infrastructure for this...

• weinzierl 4y ago
  Yes, and apparently I was the first person who voted. https://mastodon.weinzierlweb.com/@ludwig/109537268355917100 https://mastodon.weinzierlweb.com/@ludwig/109537268355917100
  • calcifer 4y ago
    I saw the same thing when I voted when the post was 14 seconds old. I think it's just a cache thing and a great many people saw they were "first".
    • weinzierl 4y ago
      Good to know, I haven't thought of that.
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• rsynnott 4y ago
  In the scheme of things that Twitter does, these polls aren't really too bad. As someone mentions, it's in the thousands per second, and I don't _think_ they show activity in real-time to anyone looking at them.
• pgwhalen 4y ago
  I hate to be the HN commenter that trivializes tech, but is that performance that impressive for a poll? Especially when there is no requirement for real time reads of the results.
  • cypress66 4y ago
    Indeed. It's "only" around 1400 tps.
  • samwillis 4y ago
    Oh I know it's quite possible technically, I've just never had the privileged to work at Twitter scale. It's also the human side of that I find fascinating, that 250k people voted in under 2 min.
  • shepherdjerred 4y ago
    > I hate to be the HN commenter that trivializes tech, but is that performance that impressive for a poll? Especially when there is no requirement for real time reads of the results. It's still cool, even if it's not the _coolest_.