In this week's class discussion, we learned about the differences between bits and bytes in terms of computer images and sounds. Every time we visit a webpage, look at a picture, listen to our favorite songs, or run an application, many of us are oblivious to the fact that it takes a certain amount of bytes for the computer to process the information. Storage is what makes our computers do what they do and without it we could neither run our applications nor run our operating system for that matter. We also learned that these small units of data run by the binary digit system and that different prefixes indicate different measures of storage space.
In relation to my Entrepreneurship Project Idea, the concept of bits and bytes is extremely relevant due to the fact that you must use a computer to access Twitter and all computers operate by the usage of bites and bytes. When using the Musical Tweeting option, you could be listening to most likely a wave or MP3 file. Similar to the beginning of class when we listened to the two audio clips of Dave Matthews, these two different types of audio files are both used depending on the circumstance. Although the wave file should sound better because they have more storage space available, we heard no difference after both files were played. This is "the beauty of MP3 files" as Professor Rubin put it.
At the end of class, things were put into prospective for us when we learned that Google processes 24 Petabytes everyday. Although Twitter might not have the same search engine capabilities as Google, its usage and popularity is immense and continually rising. The amount of bytes Twitter uses everyday is most likely also a hefty number. For something like my project idea, Twitter+ would require more storage space and would processes more than the current Twitter site would in order to run efficiently. Therefore the amount of bytes required would be quite significant to discuss before the site is upgraded.
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