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Originally posted by Yndda
spotify needa start doing at least bi-daily updates (two updates per day)
that would be cute.
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Because Spotify updates at 3am Eastern Time every day (11pm Alaskan Time, 10pm Hawaii-Aleutian Time), our daily updates are already slightly inaccurate because of streams from 11pm-12am in Alaska and from 10pm-12am in Hawaii-- so if someone streams a song at 10:30pm Hawaii-Aleutian Time tonight, it will not be factored in to tomorrow's update, because tomorrow's update will have already been posted. Instead, it'll count towards November 18th's update.
But the volume of streams coming from AK and HI during those fairly narrow timespans is pretty small, so there's not that much of a disruption.
Now imagine Spotify updating twice a day, once at 3am Eastern and once at 3pm Eastern. So all streams recorded after 2pm Central Time, 1pm Mountain Time, noon Pacific Time, 11am Alaskan Time, and 10am Hawaii-Aleutian Time would count towards the next 3am update, not the 3pm one. Now, because this volume of streams is
so much larger than the volume currently unaccounted for in our daily 3am updates, such a chart would be much more misleading.
You can't say there's x amount of streams in the country between 3am and 3pm, because that number doesn't take into account ANY streams between 12 and 3 for those in PT, between 1 and 3 for those in MT, and between 2 and 3 for those in CT. It just wouldn't work.
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