>If the average length of a tweet (minus headers) is ~100 bytes of text, that’s only 50GB. You could fit it on a USB stick.
Tweets come with a lot more data than that.
Tweet object model: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/data-dicti...
Example payloads: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/data-dicti...
I’m boggled by the extent to which people mind-read Musk through his tweets. To me it’s obvious that his Twitter is an outlet for stress busting and banter, like smoke breaks.
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.
That's like saying it's easy to check if a picture shows a bird because it's only 100kB.