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Twitter often gets singled out for it's big dataness, though the latest numbers I've seen are only about 400 million tweets per day. Even allowing 1K/tweet thi
by t1m 13y ago
Twitter often gets singled out for it's big dataness, though the latest numbers I've seen are only about 400 million tweets per day. Even allowing 1K/tweet this is a rather manageable 400GB uncompressed.
15 minutes of US tweets would fit on your phone :-)
- dekhn 13y agoThere's another important dimension: the fan-out factor when a person with many followers tweets.
- cdavid 13y agoI am pretty sure a tweet is more than 1kb: the message itself is 140 characters, not 140 bytes, and you have lots of metadata around a tweet. I would expect easily one order of magnitude more / weet.