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NewsHere’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks Pin
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Designing a system that has to be used concurrently by hundreds of thousands of users spanning the entire world is difficult, from managing the various CDNs to ensuring real time communication (when I post a tweet I want it visible to all Twitter users the second I post it, not minutes or hours later).

Add to that the various services that interact with system in ways it was not designed to accomodate (i.e. bots, TwitterDeck, third party apps).

Now enter politics: some countries ban it altogether, some other limit the content by provenience or keywords, in some other the platform is liable for the contents the users post, in other yet the government may want to access the user account at any given time. This requires continuously shoehorning in an already complex architecture everchanging modifications (because politicians never stop flapping their moronic mouths) that are vital to the continued existance of the system.


ADD: I forgot an important tidbit of information.
Twitter is old. Ages old. When it was born it had to accomodate the possibility of sending tweets via SMS (hence the previous 140 chars limit, SMS support 160 and 20 were reserved for the session ID) because smartphones didn't exist in any meaningful form, mobile Internet wasn't a thing and was often GPRS, expensive and WAP based. Many server technologies and frameworks didn't exist yet.

It has been updated, upgraded and patched for close to 15 years but the underlying architecture is still the same, with overhanging functionalities expanding it (i.e. pics on twitter, they were hell to implement and are basically implemented on the client side).
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