Genuinely curious ... of the 463k events-per-second that are implied here, how many of them are actual events (like a tweet or a like or retweet, etc.) and how many of them are advertising/tracking events ?
When I was at Twitter (6yrs ago now) they averaged around 5k tweets/s. There were MANY more notifications and other system type events.
Seems surprisingly low, and I imagine definitely at least timezone dependent. Any indication of what the largest kinds of spike traffic looked like?
I was involved in World Cup features and it definitely would spike around goals. Maybe 2-3x as I recall but it was always surprising to me how “low” the tweet volume was relative to the read volume.
Isn't it 4.63 million eps?
Those could all legitimately be tweets. The amount of spam tweet bots makes that number almost seem small.