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Isn't this completely useless? You can download about 10 million tweets a day just by watching Twitter's basic streaming API. You don't have to sign anything,
by rspeer 15y ago
Isn't this completely useless?
You can download about 10 million tweets a day just by watching Twitter's basic streaming API. You don't have to sign anything, and you probably get them faster because you just keep one HTTP connection open.
EDIT: Okay, I can see why it might be marginally useful -- to ensure that people doing similar research get the same set of tweets. But, as others have pointed out, that doesn't work if people actually comply with delete requests and don't do so with lockstep timing.
- Tichy 15y agoAh, so the tweets provided here are just a sample, just as the basic stream provides? At first I thought it would be all Tweets from 2011, which would be cool...
- rspeer 15y agoI am, apparently, off by an order of magnitude. The streaming API gives you more like a million tweets per day. So this size of corpus would take you a couple of weeks to acquire if you watch the stream yourself. Which is still apparently not much longer than the java downloader takes.