Thursday, March 31, 2011

Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API Rate Limiting

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.


On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Jeremy Dunck <jdunck@gmail.com> wrote:
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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