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Machine coding: in-memory Twitter — createUser, postTweet, getNewsFeed, follow, unfollow
Tests whether you can design clean object boundaries (User, Tweet, a follow graph) and implement getNewsFeed as a k-way merge of each followee's tweets by timestamp, rather than sorting the full combined list each call.
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