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Having 10,000 servers doesn't say 'skillful' to me.

Facebook's system is also 1000x times more complicated than twitter's simple message passing system!

For me, Facebook often seems very sluggish and slow - I have a pretty useful 4Meg connection and others sites are fine - maybe 10,000 servers is part of the problem - it seems like a ridiculously high number. I wonder how many transactions/pasge views per second they get ...

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