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Interesting to think that half a trillion tweets is about 70TB of data, and that can be stored for about $10k/year in Dropbox.
by lpolovets 12y ago
Interesting to think that half a trillion tweets is about 70TB of data, and that can be stored for about $10k/year in Dropbox.
- enf 12y agoTweets contain a lot of metadata too though. In practice a tweet is really about 3K, not 140 bytes.
- hk__2 12y agoYes, taking the example in the API docs [1] it gives me 3K of JSON, which can be gzip’d down to 1K. [1]: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/statuses/show/%3Aid https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/statuses/show/%3A...
- Ono-Sendai 12y agoThey're probably highly compressible as well.
- rmc 12y agoAnd DropBox is a storage middleman. Twitter could store it for less (and anyway, they are already storing it)