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I doubt if that's even true, because Twitter's tail latency on API calls is in the hundreds of seconds. They do not operate a low-latency service (and they don
by thrownaway2424 13y ago
I doubt if that's even true, because Twitter's tail latency on API calls is in the hundreds of seconds. They do not operate a low-latency service (and they don't operate a high volume service either, by my standards).
I think the real problem is not latency, but simply they don't have the signals needed to differentiate spam from not.
- scg 13y agoWhere did you get the latency data from?
- comex 13y agoSpeaking as a user, when someone sends me a reply, I expect to see it in seconds via the streaming API so I can have a short IM-style conversation, and I consider this a nice benefit to using Twitter (rather than, say, email), if not totally essential. Hundreds of seconds sounds bad, but if that were the norm, it would be a serious problem.