So, at 200 billion tweets per year, just storing the 240 characters of text alone (assuming fixed width) is 48 terabytes. I guess I never fully appreciated that scale before...
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Data storage is cheap, but processing and serving feeds are computationally expensive activities. I can't imagine the number of processors and amount of distributed bandwidth needed to keep Twitter functioning in real-time.
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The few papers I’ve read in it were all really interesting.
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