Why are Facebook, Digg, and Twitter so hard to scale?

Real-time social graphs (connectivity between people, places, and things). That’s why scaling Facebook is hard says Jeff Rothschild, Vice President of Technology at Facebook. Social networking sites like Facebook, Digg, and Twitter are simply harder than traditional websites to scale. Why is that? Why would social networking sites be any more difficult to scale than traditional web sites? Let’s find out.

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