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this is what is known as a straw-man argument, and it does nothing to move the conversation forward. Clearly storing just the 'tweet' contents alone would be u
by dotBen 16y ago
this is what is known as a straw-man argument, and it does nothing to move the conversation forward.
Clearly storing just the 'tweet' contents alone would be unhelpful because what about the username or any of the other 40+ metadata point a tweet carries.
What about keeping the mechanisms needed to store, sort, search, send those tweets, etc etc. I could go on.
Also, what were you expecting - Twitter to their business at-cost?
- chc 16y agoAs far as I can tell, the comment I was replying to was about Twitter's storage costs. So the fact that my response focused on storage and how much it costs does not make a strawman, which would involve arguing against something other than what I was replying to. Moreover, the point of my comment was that Twitter's storage costs are not the interesting part of their operation, so your question "Were you expecting … Twitter to run their business at-cost?" actually is a straw man. You're just repeating what I said, except with slightly less hard data.