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spling asked a question in twitterfeed on July 30, 2009 23:55:
I didn't sign up for this."Welcome to twitterfeed.com" email..
I didn't sign up for twitterfeed, so obviously someone is using my email address when they shouldn't be.. What do I do? Ignore it?-
spling replied on May 23, 2008 20:27 to the idea "Icons on web should be optimised" in Twitter:
Excellent. Glad to see an employee finally got to see this. -
spling replied on May 22, 2008 06:57 to the idea "Icons on web should be optimised" in Twitter:
Bump? This needs to be seen. -
spling replied on May 01, 2008 08:17 to the idea "Icons on web should be optimised" in Twitter:
Based on some rough research, I'm going to ballpark that twitter is having to load those icons about 500 million times a day.
At 87kb combined total for the icons, that equates to 43,500,000,000,000 bytes per day. (43,500Gb, 43.5Tb).
If the images were optimized, the combined total would be 1,144 bytes. At 500m/day, the total bandwidth usage would be 572,000,000,000 bytes/day. (572Gb).
The total daily savings would be 42,928gb/day.
In a 30 day month, that would equate to 1,287,840Gb of saved bandwidth (1,287Tb).
Based on bandwidth costs of $0.10/Gb, that would save twitter an astounding $128,784 PER MONTH on bandwidth.
These figures are estimates at best, just to show why optimization is needed. Even if the pageviews are much lower and the cost of bandwidth is cheaper, there is still money to be saved! -
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spling replied on May 01, 2008 07:30 to the idea "Icons on web should be optimised" in Twitter:
YES YES YES! Please change this. Also, the images are loaded with the epoch time as a parameter at the end, forcing the browser to reload the image EVERY TIME! Is this some kind've crazy load tracking? This must be fixed!
