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Re:What's the significance of 250 Facebook posts per week? by gobian on Friday February 03, 2017 @03:20AM (#13558514)
Are you sure the numbers are correct and it's not just capping at 250?

I just counted the number of posts on Business insider in the last 24 hours [1]. I got about 157 posts, which suggests significantly more than 250 per week.

[1] https://m.facebook.com/pg/businessinsider/posts/?ref=page_in...

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Re:What's the significance of 250 Facebook posts per week? by saalweachter on Friday February 03, 2017 @07:12AM (#13559239)
Given the suspiciousness of the number, do you think FB is using a single byte for the counter?
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Re:What's the significance of 250 Facebook posts per week? by luxsyp on Friday February 03, 2017 @08:00AM (#13559468)
it would be 255 if it was in a single byte
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Re:What's the significance of 250 Facebook posts per week? by coldtea on Friday February 03, 2017 @08:35AM (#13559661)
255 would be the limit of the counter.

But the limit set in code could be any value supported by the counter.

int8 TOTAL_POST_LIMIT = 250

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