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I took a random tweet on my timeline, and the JSON representation, with added metadata, weighs 8740 bytes.
With this figure, you would "only" need 500 tweets/sec to get 400GB a day.
There's a lot of people on Twitter, and a lot of bots, so that doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
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I took a random tweet on my timeline, and the JSON representation, with added metadata, weighs 8740 bytes.
With this figure, you would "only" need 500 tweets/sec to get 400GB a day.
There's a lot of people on Twitter, and a lot of bots, so that doesn't seem unreasonable to me.