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I know this can be tricky. I wrote a Twitter-based keyword filtering tool and subscribed to their garden hose. They say to only use one connection at a time, so
by Skywing 15y ago
I know this can be tricky. I wrote a Twitter-based keyword filtering tool and subscribed to their garden hose. They say to only use one connection at a time, so I think it may be violating the terms of service to be running more than one stream. Twitter offers larger stream bandwidths, too. Perhaps one stream of all the tweets can be obtained. Even with my one stream connection, I was missing incoming tweets because my local connection was too slow. So, this is a good question. I'm interesting in hearing the answer, too.
- a3camero 15y agoThe firehose is actually a sample of the full amount of data. If you want more coverage you need to use other techniques. One way to do it is to search for a specific word. Constantly... Here's a poor quality video from TC Disrupt last year which tells you a bit about how to geosearch Twitter to mine information: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QCnPHHCTXg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QCnPHHCTXg