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Comment by AlotOfReading

21 hours ago

If we imagine 1 tweet = 1 transaction, that's only 6k tps. 6k tps is completely achievable, dare I say even pedestrian for an optimized database. And most systems are operating far below the scale of Twitter/X.

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