2 ms·
It's probably not trivial to put the firehose in place. Until they have some way of reliably and scalably opening it up and charging for it, close partners are
by jmtulloss 17y ago
It's probably not trivial to put the firehose in place. Until they have some way of reliably and scalably opening it up and charging for it, close partners are probably the only practical customers.
- einarvollset 17y agoHaving worked with the stream; yes, not trivial, but also not very hard. Just ask @blaine.
- mseebach 17y ago400 tweets/sec + metadata comes out to less than 0.5 mbit/sec or approx 4.5 GB/day. That's less than a dollar daily in traffic costs at the Amazon rates, lowest tier. One can see why they don't want everyone and their mother pulling it, but it's hardly rocket-science, once the infrastructure is set up.