System Design: Twitter

Get an overview of Twitter with a brief description of what we will learn in this chapter.

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Twitter

Twitter is a free microblogging social network where registered users post messages called “tweets”. Users can also like, reply to, and retweet public tweets. Twitter has about 397 million users as of 2021 that is proliferating with time. One of the main reasons for its popularity is the vast sharing of the breaking news on the platform. Another important reason is that Twitter allows us to engage with and learn from people belonging to different communities and cultures.

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