# Design Twitter — system design interview question | Aced (formerly Exponent) Aced (formerly Exponent) publishes a public search API over its indexed pages; the guide is at https://www.aced.io/agents/agent-access. Source: https://www.aced.io/questions/1374/design-twitter Source observed: 2026-11-04T23:17:46.339Z Last checked: 2026-11-04T23:17:46.339+00:00 Indexed: 2026-11-06T08:44:00.543+00:00 --- # Design Twitter. We provide interview preparation through questions, expert answer videos, courses, peer-to-peer practice, and a private Discord community. This question is a system design interview prompt about designing Twitter. Hozefa, identified as a Facebook and Wealthfront engineering manager, answers the question in an expert answer video. ## Access and membership Detailed company statistics for this question and the full answer content require an upgrade. 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The question was closer to the actual problems stripe works on.” 2. **[Roblox · 5 months ago](https://www.aced.io/experiences/roblox-senior-software-engineer-interview-8f09cc)** — Software Engineer, Senior / L5. “Fairly standard interview process, recruiters are very helpful in giving general direction of how to prepare for each interview” 3. **[Confluent · 10 months ago](https://www.aced.io/experiences/confluent-software-engineer-interview-1dc245)** — Software Engineer. “In coding rounds, the questions asked were NOT leetcode based. Both coding rounds had follow ups. Expection is to have working solutions. In one of the system design rounds, there was unusally more focus on the APIs than the actual design.” ## Community answers No answers have been contributed by the community yet. You must [log in or sign up](https://www.aced.io/signup?src=nav&returnPath=/questions/1374/design-twitter) to answer this question. 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