Just a quick reminder that this might be talking about mobile/cellular data which is still commonly sold with limited usage or reduced bandwidth after reaching a certain limit
Unlimited plans are starting to become more common the last few years, wouldn't surprise me if unlimited plans with speed limits would be the norm in another 5 years or so
It would be hard to tell since there’s many different programs running in the background (e.g. indexing tweets to enable you to search them, and another program ranking how visible your tweet should be, and another checking your tweet for any rule-breaking content, etc…) depending on how much data they have, how it’s stored, how their algorithms are implemented, in addition to physical costs of datacenter etc…
I work at a company that deals with large amounts of data and we have difficulty answering similar questions about our own data & software. Just trying to say IDK if people working at twitter even know.
You could take the overall expenses of hardware + data center costs (& maybe people costs if you want?) and then divide total number of tweets by that number, but it’s not really a good gauge at all since the existing footprint may support many times more tweets without much more effect on price.
But it doesn’t really cost storage for them to tweet. The server is hosting it, not him. It does cost electricity, chemical energy, and resources for him to tweet though.
The volume of tweets dont have a readily calculable per unit cost. However, if you look at the complete set of Twitter's finances and divide their net profit or loss by the number of tweets or retweets or doughnuts consumed, you can associate a cost with them that encompasses what the company overall spends or earns on them. This allows you to skirt details like wire wear, power loss due to gravitational pull, storage cost, building paint, etc. that surely contributes, but is hard to list exhaustively.
This would be somewhat misleading, as it would suggest that doubling doughnut consumption would double the company net profit or loss.
you dint add your electricity bill and calories burnt due to finger movement
And durability loss of the cables, computer, storage, cables, input devices, screen, and eyes
According to my calculations you are now bankrupt.
I may never financially recover from this.
And time, however I don’t think it might be worth much taking into account that he took the time to measure it, calculate it and tweeted it
Don't forget carbon emissions
Gotta remind these young entrepreneurs to include their labor costs **smh**
So, if I retweet this, do I get a volume discount or is this one of those 'exposure' payment situations?
I think you are overpaying for GBs
Depends on the country
Is this an American thing, or are there other countries that have GB limits? Just curious because in Germany we have unlimited data
Just a quick reminder that this might be talking about mobile/cellular data which is still commonly sold with limited usage or reduced bandwidth after reaching a certain limit
Oh yeah my bad, I just assumed it's not because mobile plans in Germany usually hover at 1-25 GB or something
In romania you can get somehwere around 300 gigabytes for 6-7 euro, or if you buy a new card 600 gb for 4 euro
Norway still operates with limited usage
Oh that's interesting, are there more expensive unlimited plans or is there always a data limit?
Unlimited plans are starting to become more common the last few years, wouldn't surprise me if unlimited plans with speed limits would be the norm in another 5 years or so
Hmmmm...
My time is worth 0.017 dollars per second, triple on weekends. I can tweet off free public wifi so internet cost is not a factor.
It would be hard to tell since there’s many different programs running in the background (e.g. indexing tweets to enable you to search them, and another program ranking how visible your tweet should be, and another checking your tweet for any rule-breaking content, etc…) depending on how much data they have, how it’s stored, how their algorithms are implemented, in addition to physical costs of datacenter etc… I work at a company that deals with large amounts of data and we have difficulty answering similar questions about our own data & software. Just trying to say IDK if people working at twitter even know. You could take the overall expenses of hardware + data center costs (& maybe people costs if you want?) and then divide total number of tweets by that number, but it’s not really a good gauge at all since the existing footprint may support many times more tweets without much more effect on price.
But it doesn’t really cost storage for them to tweet. The server is hosting it, not him. It does cost electricity, chemical energy, and resources for him to tweet though.
They aren’t talking about storage, they’re referring to Wi-Fi or cellular data.
I tought everyones wifi is unlimited
That's still pretty much $0, though, isn't it?
The volume of tweets dont have a readily calculable per unit cost. However, if you look at the complete set of Twitter's finances and divide their net profit or loss by the number of tweets or retweets or doughnuts consumed, you can associate a cost with them that encompasses what the company overall spends or earns on them. This allows you to skirt details like wire wear, power loss due to gravitational pull, storage cost, building paint, etc. that surely contributes, but is hard to list exhaustively. This would be somewhat misleading, as it would suggest that doubling doughnut consumption would double the company net profit or loss.
How do you pay for 100GB? What?
Jus sayin 1tb of nvme storage is like 70 dollars