Re:Push notifications when you have 8M followers [video]
by minimaxir on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @01:29AM
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> It seems like most instragram users have over 100 followers[1], if they're all active and connected that means a sizable chunk of likes (or whatever else you can do) when you post something.
Bad assumption, given the 90:9:1 rule (99% lurk while 1% participate)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
1% does mean a lot when you have millions of followers, though.
Surely sending all these notifications isn't entirely free - someone else posted Snowden receiving 47 gigs of mail because of email notifications.
You could do something like send notifications with some sort of back-off. Send them for 10 seconds, then back off to a minute's worth chunk, then 10 minutes, then an hour.
Then again, I don't have any statistics on how much these external services actually cost, nor how often this actually does happen. Simplest thing is for instagram/twitter to not care, and to point the finger at apple/android and tell them they should have UI to squelch high-frequency notifications.
[1] http://www.statista.com/statistics/419326/us-teen-instagram-...