Requirements


Functional Requirements:


  • Allow users to tweet messages up to 140 characters.
  • Enable users to follow other users.
  • Allow users to like tweets from other users.
  • Display tweets from followed users in the home feed.
  • Show top K popular tweets in the home feed based on likes and followers.



Non-Functional Requirements:


  • 99.99% uptime
  • low latency when loading tweets
  • low latency across the globe


API Design


POST /post

{

postContent

}



High-Level Design

Describe the overall system architecture. Identify the main components needed to solve the problem end-to-end. Use the diagramming tool to create a block diagram.




Detailed Component Design

Deep dive into 2-3 key components. Explain how they work, how they scale, discuss tradeoffs, capacity, and any relevant algorithms or data structures.