REST API and Streaming API are like apples and oranges, a lot of things just cant be done with the streaming api.Esp. accessing past tweets, search results, soc

REST API and Streaming API are like apples and oranges, a lot of things just cant be done with the streaming api.Esp. accessing past tweets, search results, social network etc. A good thing about twitter was that their social network was more open than the facebook's social network, with newer rate limits its going to be really difficult to crawl it.