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The fact that twitter has a size limit of 280 bytes (used to be 140 bytes), they are probably trying to free up some inodes to save some disk space, as greedy a
by jijji 7y ago
The fact that twitter has a size limit of 280 bytes (used to be 140 bytes), they are probably trying to free up some inodes to save some disk space, as greedy as it sounds.
- eru 7y agoWhy would they store each tweet as one file on an inode limited file system?
- jijji 7y agoit was sarcasm, but anyone who takes twitter seriously should have their head checked
- eru 7y agoOh, ok. Storing each tweet as one file might even make sense. But you need to pick a filesystem that supports that use case at scale, if you are twitter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir is a good example of how this can make sense---at least at a small local scale.
- hendi_ 7y agoThey neither store each tweet in a single file, nor is is 140 bytes but 140 characters (think ASCII vs UTF-8)
- raverbashing 7y agoAlso pictures/videos attached to the tweet
- jijji 7y agoit was sarcasm, and it was never implied that each tweet was stored as a single inode.