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Posted on April 6, 2009 | tags

 
 

Tech: Facebook’s big problem: Too many photos, too much content

  • $2 million amount Facebook reportedly spends each week on buying new servers for all of its fresh social networking data to keep all you annoying, fat users happy with them.
  • 850 million number of photos that get uploaded to Facebook each month, the biggest bandwidth-killer; they’re trying to stem the cost with a new system called Haystack. source

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2 Responses to Facebook’s big problem: Too many photos, too much content

  1. MixMan says:
    April 6, 2009 at 8:04 pm

    Cite correctly — “850 million photos uploaded to the site each MONTH”.

    http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2009/04/facebook-haystack.html

  2. MixMan says:
    April 6, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    Cite correctly — “850 million photos uploaded to the site each MONTH”.

    http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2009/04/facebook-haystack.html

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