Twitter is a global real-time communications platform that processes many billions of events every day. Aggregating these events in real time presents a massive challenge of scale. Classic time-series applications include site traffic, service health, and user engagement monitoring; these are increasingly complemented by a range of analytics products and features such as Tweet activity, Followers,
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