In Twitter’s early days, only one celebrity could tweet at a time

>>evanwe+(OP)
2010: "At any moment, Justin Bieber uses 3% of our infrastructure. Racks of servers are dedicated to him"

https://gizmodo.com/5632095/justin-bieber-has-dedicated-serv...

>>molecu+qx
But, but, but...why does Twitter have so many engineers? I could write Twitter in a weekend!

--95% of anti-TWTR posters circa 2010-2016.

>>firebo+WM
Before bring acquired, WhatsApp had what, 30 employees?

How did they do it? I know they used custom BSD servers so that a single box could keep close to 1M TCP connections open. I'm sure with a fixed target to aim for and all scope known upfront a small crack team of devs could do something similar for Twitter.

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