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How Twitter/X puts ~500M posts a day into followers' home timelines within 5 s and serves ~300K timeline reads a second from memory: push tweet IDs at write time for ordinary authors, pull celebrity posts at read time, cache IDs not tweets, degrade by delay in a spike, and delete with a tombstone filtered at hydration.
Picture someone with about 700 followers, the average, posting a quick thought.