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Actually I have built similar systems, on a smaller scale.

Phone companies and financial institutions don't typically have messages which affect millions of accounts, for a start.

You're saying that as if it was a relevant metric. It's not. What matters is the number of concurrently online subscribers and the aggregate throughput. Twitter doesn't go and append to 1mio inboxes when akutcher sends a tweet.



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