Thursday, March 31, 2011

Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API Rate Limiting

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Augusto Santos <augusto@gemeos.org> wrote:
> No it won't. Streaming has rate limit with around 1% of firehose, if your
> search term os too much generic.
> If your search term or bouding box get too many tweets, you will start
> receive 'limit' status message as doc said.
> http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api_concepts#parsing-responses

Sure, I understand that, I just meant to say that 1% of all tweets is
a lot (140M average per day now).

If your terms are not very general, you have a lot of head room.

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