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		jules on May 29, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter's peak load is only 200 tweets per second Yes. I think Google has to do quite a bit more per query than Twitter per message.

pj on May 29, 2009 [–]

and google also has perhaps hundreds of thousands of servers and tens of data centers.

His point is just to provide some measure of scale against a "known beast".

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