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FB should be more difficult as well because they aren't just showing streaming information. They're making (supposedly) intelligent decisions on what informati
by jdrock 17y ago
FB should be more difficult as well because they aren't just showing streaming information. They're making (supposedly) intelligent decisions on what information to show you. Twitter is just showing you a "dumb" stream.
- litewulf 17y agoAt the same time, facebook can simply drop messages on the floor if they're bottlenecked, so they have less strict scaling requirements.
- gaius 17y agoTwitter has guaranteed delivery? Are you sure? The killer app of Facebook - poking - does need to be reliable ;-)
- litewulf 17y agoI'm pretty sure Twitter is "guaranteed delivery", but thats just my naive user expectation. Poking, while needing to be reliable is a 1:1 activity, so light on writes and easy to read, whereas broadcasting is difficult because of the wide variance in update frequency and number of followers from user to user.