10 Billion Photos on Facebook
I came across this note, it’s a bit old but I found it really impressive, according to this note by a facebook engineer number of photos uploaded by users reached 10 billion last October, 10 billion! And as it was mentioned there, facebook saves each photo in 4 different sizes, which means they have 40 billions files, wow that’s big!
# 2-3 Terabytes of photos are being uploaded to the site every day
# They have just over one petabyte of photo storage
# They serve over 15 billion photo images per day
# Photo traffic now peaks at over 300,000 images served per second
That is huge! It makes you think where is facebook heading? How it’s going to look like 10 years from now?
Check out the original note.
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on February 18, 2009 at 3:31 pm raindrop wrote:
I am not sure if facebook will be the “ultimate” social service forever, competition is going more aggressive in the Web 2.0 atmosphere and social communities.
I believe facebook created (or discovered) a need among teenagers, combined sharing photos with fun application.. and creating the ecosystem opened the space for more external involvement was smart step, that led to more value added services.. but what if someone else discovered (or created) a new need?
few years ago flickr was on the top then facebook came to set on the top, adding more than sharing photos.
tomorrow, I believe a new innovation will move facebook as well if they stopped here and didn’t add more, taking in consideration next generations’ habits and attitudes are unpredictable, it’s more than a PC now, it’s a PC, iPhone, Laptop .. etc.
Hint: Cloud Computing. I see a future there.