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by Sohcahtoa82 1254 days ago
> 500m tweets/day * (conservatively) 512B/tweet * 365 days/yr ~= 90 TiB/yr

I wonder if the "Petabytes" figure being claimed includes pictures/videos that can be attached to a Tweet. In that case, I could easily see "Petabytes/year" be accurate.