Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for performing operations comprising: storing, on a distributed storage system, a plurality of real-time graph (RTG) instances that include a plurality of device objects; receiving, by a first device object of the plurality of device objects, a status update from a client device associated with a first user; transmitting, by the first device object, a first message comprising the status update to a second device object associated with a second user over a real-time link; and transmitting, by the first device object, a second message comprising the status update to a third device object associated with a third user over a first rate-limited link.