Google on today’s massive Google+ spam influx: “We ran out of disk space”

Post by craigmccaskill » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 10:10 AM UTC

flyt wrote: post #17

ChuckMcM wrote: post #6

Interesting. Given the minimum size of a Colossus cluster I find the explanation Vic gives unsatisfying. That being said I'm pretty impressed with the overall product, it is the best attempt yet to unseat Facebook, and I predict it will if Facebook can't come up with a credible response quickly. The killer feature is that its blended with Gmail, and since a lot of people keep gmail open all the time it means you get…

Is this a joke? When I see people using their phones in public the #1 app, bar none, that I see open is Facebook. people are just browsing their feeds, commenting, liking, etc. This is mostly on iOS devices but increasingly on Android as the FB app has matured. 750 million people around the world use Facebook at least once a month. Of that number HALF return every single day, and 80% use it at least once a week. Face…

Post by JonnieCache » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 10:24 AM UTC

craigmccaskill wrote: post #8

Some quick napkin math on numbers: If you're to believe Eric Schmidt when he says 'millions' and put that at 3 million users (being generous), guessing that each user uploads 20 megabytes of content (again, generous) thats: 3x10^6 × 20 MB 6x10^7 MB or 60TB Sanity check or does that not seem like a lot of resources to allocate to a project of this size? Edit: formatting

Post by senthilnayagam » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 11:42 AM UTC

Post by vegai » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 12:35 PM UTC

senthilnayagam wrote: post #25

running out of diskspace is devops 101, it is high time these colossus startups start publishing which CMM level standard they meet

Post by wisty » Sun, Jul 10, 2011, 1:21 PM UTC

riffraff wrote: post #28

ChuckMcM wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are correct in that I was generalizing when I should not have been. I've used Google Apps for work and since a lot of communication comes through email that means Gmail is open (or at least getting notifications with the talk gadget). I would not be surprised if you were correct that many folks leave Facebook open all the time.

it's worse than that: among my non technical friends email is used only for "serious stuff" as talking with teachers (or students, for my friends who teach) and for work. For the others facebook messages have supplanted email. I am obviously not sure this is a global trend, but I keep using the test "who did you receive an email from, recently, who isn't work or a fellow technical person?". Results are somewhat scary…