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

[abstractwater]

I don't see the value in Scoble's argument, if he has one. I don't see the point of comparing the amount of tweets/sec with the rate of Google queries. They are just very different things, in their essence, purpose, way of usage.

It would be more interesting (maybe) comparing the number of Twitter search queries with Google's, at least we would be talking about similar operations.

[jules → abstractwater]

Yes. I think Google has to do quite a bit more per query than Twitter per message.

[pj → jules]

and google also has perhaps hundreds of thousands of servers and tens of data centers.

His point is just to provide some measure of scale against a "known beast".