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But is also has to do with how frequently the information is changed/accessed.

e.g. If Oprah only publishes 3 tweets a day, but her one million followers each check 100 times a day (just to be on the bleeding edge of gossip), it's much less effort to push the change.

On the flip side, if you post status changes several times a day but your followers rarely check (daily/weekly), pull may make more sense.

Although, I suppose that a push inherently requires an update/write, while a pull is generally a read. Seems like this might need to be taken into consideration as well.



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