I'm going to pretend I know what I'm talking about and blame the platform's likely use of casual consistency coupled with what is undoubtedly a massive amount of caching dropped in front their API servers. But mostly I wanted to sound smart.
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Oddly, I was thinking about this earlier -- there was a story on the orange site about how to "build a real-time Twitter clone in 15 minutes". Sure, anyone probably can -- it's the scaling that's the issue. I just looked; maybe it's genuine, it's elixir-based.
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