Twitter InconsistencyTwitter Inconsistency

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• Inconsistency is by design, and not limited to Twitter

• “Eventually consistent”: older inconsistency will eventually reconcile, but new inconsistency keeps coming in

• Can be much more severe than expected• “Archiving the Relaxed Consistency Web”, CIKM 2014

• Needs further investigation and profiling• Needs new tools to reconcile inconsistency

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