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by danaliv 3439 days ago
I suspect the writer was using the phrase "hundreds of millions" figuratively. When I worked there years ago there were already 14 billion API requests a day, iirc. (That number was public at the time, for the record.)
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I belive it's in the low 100's of millions of tweets per day. I've seen that stat elsewhere

> 14 billion API Do you mean 14B internal, services-requesting-services API requests?

Surely you can't mean 14B API requests from the outside world, can you? I'm scratching my head over how their real user base could generate anywhere near that load.

As of several years ago the putlic http endpoints would easily do 1M/sec at peak times. Not just api, but web, images, et al.