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Fix typo in Twitter timeline and search solution (donnemartin#251)
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glusa8 authored and donnemartin committed Feb 11, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ We'll introduce some components to complete the design and to address scalabilit

The **Fanout Service** is a potential bottleneck. Twitter users with millions of followers could take several minutes to have their tweets go through the fanout process. This could lead to race conditions with @replies to the tweet, which we could mitigate by re-ordering the tweets at serve time.

We could also avoid fanning out tweets from highly-followed users. Instead, we could search to find tweets for high-followed users, merge the search results with the user's home timeline results, then re-order the tweets at serve time.
We could also avoid fanning out tweets from highly-followed users. Instead, we could search to find tweets for highly-followed users, merge the search results with the user's home timeline results, then re-order the tweets at serve time.

Additional optimizations include:

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