Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API Rate Limiting

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Data Gatherer <gathererbot@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I would not like the data gathering for one project to affect another
> project. If I'm rate limited depending on how much data my single
> connection to the data stream receives - this would affect all
> projects. If this is the case, can I make multiple connections to the
> streaming API? The IP addresses would be similar but not the same.
> Since the projects are different, the accounts would be different too.
> I find the description of rate limiting and multiple connections on
> the Streaming API documentation a little confusing.

I just did a stream search for "the" and received 2200 tweets in 30 seconds.
If that sustained, it would be 6,336,000 per day.

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