Let's see, at the 1000 tweets per second figure from the article that's 365 * 24 * 3600 * 500 = 15,768,000,000 tweets for $360,000. Or 0.002 cents per tweet.

Let's see, at the 1000 tweets per second figure from the article that's 365 * 24 * 3600 * 500 = 15,768,000,000 tweets for $360,000. Or 0.002 cents per tweet. So 500ish tweets are worth about a penny, and your $360K would be for 15 gigatweets which would weigh in at about 2.2 TB[1]. So my tweets aren't worthless, they're just very very cheap. [1] That's a hard drive manufacturer terabyte, not a real one