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Re:A Detailed Five Step Twitter Scaling Plan by nostrademons on Wednesday May 21, 2008 @12:58PM (#196222)
You don't store it twice - you store it hundreds of times, once for each recipient. Twitter isn't person-to-person messaging, it's broadcast.
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