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The streaming api is extremely limited, it is only good for getting real time tweet feed. The biggest difficulty with twitter is that there is no way to get th
by aubhat 16y ago
The streaming api is extremely limited, it is only good for getting real time tweet feed.
The biggest difficulty with twitter is that there is no way to get the social network, and the REST API was the only way of getting it.
Thus any deep social network based analytics are difficult to perform.
- evgen 16y agoFrom Twitter's biz perspective this is probably a good thing. They keep the social network bits that might potentially be monetized and let third-party devs create pretty chrome around the streaming data that most users interact with.