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> How do you make sure that a celebrity's tweet reaches all of her followers in less than 3 seconds?".

On the receive side, sample the current time, subtract 2 seconds, and adjust the message time stamp to that.

The recipient of a message from a celebrity has no idea when it was actually sent; they are not engaged in a real-time chat with that celebrity via another channel.



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