I’m trying to create a system similar to the Twitter timeline, but I can’t plunge into the head of how to get updates from so many followers, while remaining effective. Let's say I follow 1000 people on Twitter. When I go to my channel, how does he know what tweets show me? This is what I think of, but it seems extremely inefficient and unlikely:
You have 10,000 friends. In a for loop, loop through each friend, getting their latest status updates since their last update.
But it just seems ridiculous to go through 10,000 friends. I can’t imagine how else they would do it. Or it will be something like:
Someone I am following posted a tweet. That tweet is inserted in an array containing the tweets of all people I am following.
But then it would seem strange if I followed someone new who had 20,000 tweets, then 20,000 tweets would be included in my array, and if this person has millions of followers, then there is a million X 20,000 copies of the same set of tweets. So this also seems unlikely.
Anyone have any ideas how they can do this?
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