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One post on Twitter: 140 bytes max. One HD frame on Netflix: 6220800 bytes max. If throwing the near-totality of human cinematography on H2G2 is a no-brainer d
by ctdonath 13y ago
One post on Twitter: 140 bytes max. One HD frame on Netflix: 6220800 bytes max.
If throwing the near-totality of human cinematography on H2G2 is a no-brainer due to its manageably small size (a mere 24TB), then may as well throw Twitter on there as well.
- misnome 13y agoDon't forget Unicode. 140 Characters =/= 140 bytes.
- ctdonath 13y agoDon't forget compression too. And don't forget most tweets don't use close to the full available tweet data space. A billion tweets takes up a lot less than 140GB. I'm just looking at rough comparisons. A single 1/24th of a second of Netflix video approximates 44,000 tweets' worth of data. Anticipating growth, let's assume a billion tweets per day (was half-billion last October). 171 days of tweets takes up the same space as the complete Netflix library.
- pyre 13y agoIt's probably easier to index and search Netflix than it is to index and search all of Twitter on a small device.