Shared photostream icloud usage

Hi guys (or girls ;-)),
I love the shared photostream, now I can create an album and put some photo's in it and it automatically shows those albums on all my devices without the need to sync them through itunes. Besides that, I can also easily share them with anyone I like. Finally this gets close to the old Mobile Me gallery.
However. I am wondering what the shared photostream does do to my icloud storage? Does each photo take up space or is it free just like the 'normal' photostream? And if it does not take up space does it them mean that all photos together can still be no more then 1000 and will it then remove those photos from my albums when I exceed this amount?
I wasn't able to find any information about this?
Kind Regards,
Nico...

This is not true, photos in a SHARED photostream will not be deleted. Per apple:
"Photos in shared photo streams are not deleted after thirty (30) days, but the size of any given photo stream may be subject to photo or recipient number, and/or size limitations. Downloaded photos can be manually saved to the iOS Camera Roll."
http://www.apple.com/legal/icloud/en/terms.html

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How much data is used to receive photos that others have shared with me via a shared PhotoStream?

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We have multiple devices in our family. On each iPad/iPhone each user has their own apple id for iMessage, Facetime and icloud, but we all sign in to the same apple id for itunes. When one of my kids comments on my shared photostream, it shows my name??

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I have set up a shared photostream and a couple of people have access . I want to expand the access to more people - how do I do this without deleting the photostream and starting again?

Dear Tildeline,
The above answer was for the iPad.
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Just started using the shared Photostream feature today, and we noticed that the first shared Photostream we tried duplicated all the photos that were shared if viewed from iPhoto or AppleTV. The web site for the shared Photostream does have exactly the right pictures with no duplicates.
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Hi guys!
I could need some help with the shared Photostream function.
I read the Q&A about it and i'm sure now that my shared Photostream albums wont delete by apple at anytime.
Also i read about the Limits of Upload 1000 an Hour, 10.000 a Day.
My idea is to use the Shared Photostream Album function as an online Backup before selling my old iPhone.
Here is my Problem:
I got a lot of pictures on my Old iPhone, and i experienced a Lot of Memory usage through the new Albums i created so far,
So my Memory space is totally Full... I thought it's mainly online space used?
Next Problem is that the Upload wont work correct. It's only working with a 100-200 pictures After that i Can select other pictures
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And If i erase my old iPhone the iCloud Shared Photoalbum wont be affected?
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I have a question about sharing photos though...does the sharing I've set up with Facebook and iCloud photostreams travel "with" the library, or is that a higher level, "iPhoto wide" setting?
For example, say in the formerly single library, I had shared a number of personal photos on Facebook and various shared photostreams. Now, in the new "work" library, I delete those photos. I saw the "update" wheel spinning beside the Facebook item in the sidebar when I did so. Should I have turned off sharing for the "work" library?
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