Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by achompas 5088 days ago
Wait, see my comment below. Twitter received 15B (yes, B) API calls/day last July. How does that compare to your typical email client?

I don't want to argue that Twitter is astoundingly hard, but serving ~170K requests/sec can't really be that trivial, even if they're 160 bytes (they're not, since Twitter sends metadata, logs those messages, tracks service metrics, etc. for those messages)