#6Easy
Design Twitter for millions of users
Asked by:UberCoupang
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What data will you store for each tweet? (tweet ID, user ID, timestamp, text, media link, etc.)
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How will you design for billions of tweets, millions of users, and high fan-out (e.g., celebrities with millions of followers)?
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How will you index tweets and store user timelines? (e.g., in separate timeline storage or as pointers to tweet objects?)
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What will you cache (timelines? tweet metadata?) and where (e.g., Redis)?