An IRC network server can serve what, a few hundred thousands of concurrent users’ text messages on a single PC.
Twitter has around 200 million daily user, peaking up to a billion, running on their own server farm. They are not remotely comparable, especially if we note that read-write dbs are notoriously hard to scale.
Twitter has around 200 million daily user, peaking up to a billion, running on their own server farm. They are not remotely comparable, especially if we note that read-write dbs are notoriously hard to scale.