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Re:In Twitter’s early days, only one celebrity could tweet a... by scarface74 on Friday May 25, 2018 @11:05AM (#17154377)
That's the essence of the CAP theorem. You can have two of three - consistency, availability, and partition tolerance. Sometimes it makes sense to choose availability over consistency.
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