On: Twitter's peak load is only 200 tweets per second

[jerf]

The correct metric is probably not "tweets incoming", but "tweets delivered". There's some multiplicative factors that start to bite.

I say "probably" because I'm an outsider guessing, but I'm reasonably confident about that statement. Just not quite 100%.

(In the colloquial sense of 100%, of course; I'm not mathematically 100% sure Twitter exists.)