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Isn’t a hashtag just another kind of user account — an account from which anyone can post? The data structures for the @BeefWellington timeline of tweets and t
by gorgoiler 4y ago
Isn’t a hashtag just another kind of user account — an account from which anyone can post?
The data structures for the @BeefWellington timeline of tweets and the one for the #BeefWellington timeline of tweets could look roughly the same.
- bithaze 4y agoHashtags aren't like user accounts, no - they're strings that are part of a tweet. In theory, a separate data structure shouldn't be needed since you can just search the full text of tweets, but in practice, I don't know how that scales for the number of all-time tweets.
- HyperSane 4y agoI think he was talking about how hashtags are implemented.
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