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Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” by rco8786 on Friday May 29, 2020 @05:24PM (#23355722)
> Every day 100k tweets are sent

When I worked there we handled about ~6k tweets/sec all day every day. (~500,000,000 tweets/day)

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Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” by sytelus on Saturday May 30, 2020 @05:52AM (#23359882)
There are 145M daily active users on Tweeter. So that’s approx 3 tweets per user. Sounds reasonable.
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Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” by azalemeth on Friday May 29, 2020 @06:05PM (#23356091)
What database did you use?
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Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” by rco8786 on Saturday May 30, 2020 @09:31AM (#23361045)
It was just* MySQL for a lot longer than you might imagine. They were switching over to Manhattan (in-house DB, similar to FB's Cassandra) when I left, dunno the current state of affairs.

* highly customized and sharded, required team of senior MySQL DBAs to maintain, but still just MySQL.

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