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140 characters. How much memory would it take up ?
I'm trying to calculate how many tweets my EC2 Large instance Mongo DB can hold.
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The average size of a tweet is 300 bytes.
Maximum file size is 512MB for TweetVideo, but you are able to upload a video longer than 2 minutes and 20 seconds, and trim it before including the video in a Tweet. Complete your message and click Tweet to share your Tweet and video.
This would work out to around 84TB of text during that period if every single tweet were the maximum 140 characters or around 44TB using a 74-character average tweet length.
The long and the short of it It turns out that the average tweet is 28 characters long, with a spike at the 140 character mark.
Twitter uses UTF-8 encoded messages.
UTF-8 code points can be up to six four octets long, making the maximum message size 140 x 4 = 560 8-bit bytes.
This is, of course, just for the raw messages, excluding storage overhead, indexing and other storage-related padding.
e: Twitter successfully let me post the message:
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Yes, that's 140 trademark symbols, which are three octets each in UTF-8
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