The 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 sp

The 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