Twitter's Timeline Architecture architecture diagram

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How Twitter assembles and delivers the home timeline. Shows the fanout-on-write approach where tweets are pre-computed into Redis caches per user, ML-powered ranking for the algorithmic timeline, Social Graph on FlockDB, media service with CDN delivery, and ads injection.

Twitter's Timeline Architecture

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February 9, 2026

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July 11, 2026 at 10:13 PM

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