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by belligeront 1306 days ago
He's also acted with hubris with his engineering claims. For example claiming that the reason twitter is slower in india is that there are 1200 RPC calls, which is pretty absurd.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592176202873085952

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Why do you think that's absurd? With a microservice architecture you can easily hit that rendering a personalized feed.
Because those requests happen within the Twitter datacenter. There's no goo reason to assume they should be slower from India.