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Most of that data is not the content of the tweet itself, but the metadata associated with it. When I last checked, we were storing about a kilobyte of data for
by nevinera 12y ago
Most of that data is not the content of the tweet itself, but the metadata associated with it. When I last checked, we were storing about a kilobyte of data for every tweet.
Also, tweets are limited to 140 characters, not bytes - chinese tweets typically take about 200-250 bytes, for example.
- StavrosK 12y agoYeah, I figured 300 bytes per Tweet, to be generous, but didn't realize it would take 1 kb of metadata. Thanks for that detail.