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by Dylan16807 1473 days ago
The example tweet, a somewhat large one with links and images, gzips down to 1.5KB by itself. Given that information, I think it would be reasonable to estimate 1KB per tweet in bulk.

500 million times 1KB is... still one USB stick, not even $50 https://amazon.com/SanDisk-512GB-Ultra-Flash-Drive/dp/B083ZL...

Or going by the retweeted quote tweet that's 40% bigger zipped, it's still well within 1TB which is a normal size for a flash drive.

I'm not very fond of Musk but this is a weak criticism.
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croes 1473 days ago
Not it isn't. It's not about storage but about analysing the data. It's text so it could easily be compressed to smaller size but this doesn't help in knowing anything about the tweet author, if he is a bit or not.

That's like saying it's easy to check if a picture shows a bird because it's only 100kB.

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Dylan16807 1473 days ago
The tweet he replied to sure seemed to be about volume of data to me.
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