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Ask HN: Does Twitter push tweets to followers?
How does twitter serve tweets to followers? In a typical CRUD app, it makes sense to store tweets in a `tweets` table and grab tweets from people that an account is following.
Does this scale at the size of twitter? If no, how do they do it?
- patio11 14y agohttp://highscalability.com/blog/2011/12/19/how-twitter-stores-250-million-tweets-a-day-using-mysql.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/12/19/how-twitter-store...