I'm using the stream, but using track filtering. So far it's working very well for my purposes. You are right in that different use cases might need the firehou

I'm using the stream, but using track filtering. So far it's working very well for my purposes. You are right in that different use cases might need the firehouse and that's where services like gnip and datasift really come in handy. It's too bad that there's not a middle ground.