10 Comments »This evening Facebook announced that they have surpassed the 10 billion photo milestone. In terms of files, that is over 40 billion files since there is 4 image sizes store for each individual photo. Doug Beaver provided some other interesting statistics including:
- There are between 2 and 3 Terabytes of photos being uploaded daily.
- Over 15 billion photos are served each day
- Over one petabyte (1,024 Terabytes) of photos have been stored
Facebook is currently the largest online photo storage site, dominating even the highly popular photo sharing site: Flickr. This is an impressive number and it’s also impressive that the photos application is one of the few features on Facebook that rarely has significant issues. I know that I personally use the photos application heavily and based on the stats released tonight, it appears that just about every other user does as well.
Hi Nick,
Thanks for the statistics.
As for me, Photos was the first reason why I chose to use Facebook. Till now, it is still the most important factor.
Regards,
TaiTran
Doug wrote: “but we actually store four image sizes for each uploaded photo”
There is the 604px-width photo and thumbnails. I wonder if Facebook also stores photos of higher size than the current 604px width?
If it's the case, I would love to see the day Facebook allows photos of better size. With only 604px width, group photos are but big blurs.
Just FYI, Orkut supports 800×600…
Cheers,
TaiTran
Doug it might be like youtube where the original is stored. I remember when youtube announced their high quality version, they went through and converted all the old videos which means they must have kept the original upload (which would be massive in terms of space) considering a 100mb video file might be reduced to 5-10mb.
Along the lines of facebook photos, I discovered an application on facebook that assists with tagging by using face detection.
http://www.new.facebook.com/apps/application.ph...
I personally don't upload my photos due to the terms of use. Basically Facebook can do whatever you want to with your photos (and other stuff you put on the site). Even without giving you any credit. And they can even sell your stuff. If Facebook was a danish site the terms of use would be illegal for several reasons. And actually because the site presents itself in danish and from http://www.facebook.dk some people think they should obey danish law, but I don't know anything about that.
Anyway I got my photos on Flickr and use the facebook application Flickr Loves You to integrate to my photogallery from my Facebook profile.
An article in danish about the legal issues:
http://www.computerworld.dk/art/48391
I have seen English articles too (about the terms, not specifically the problems with danish law), but can't remember the addresses. If very interested one could try a google translation of above article, but haven't checked myself if it makes much sence:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A...
When they will increase Photos resolution? Tired of little pics. They will rest for ages and I like better resolution ones.
damn! i had no idea they had so many photos. i guess drunk college kids like to use their digicams
Wow there are a lot disk space only in photos.
I dont like the terms of facebook, and I also use Flickr both to show photos and as a backup.
I only occasionally upload photos to facebook, particularly events where a lot of my facebook contacts are participating in.
Too bad flickr is missing the tagging part. To be honest, it has the capability (mapping to identities being the big problem, using notes and machine tags one could achieve some sort of tagging, albeit totally without a sane UI)
Thanks for sharing
Regards
Max
http://xtupload.com