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Data come from the Twitter Streaming API https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis

• jevinskie 14y ago
  Is the site getting the firehose stream though? How do you get that level of access?
  • huskyr 14y ago
    They're probably using the 'sample' firehose, which is not protected and still serves a few tweets per second.
    • tariqr 14y ago
      that looks like a lot more data than a few tweets per second though.
    • lucaspiller 14y ago
      The free version gives access to 1% [1] of all tweets, which seems about right for this. [1] https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/2752 https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/2752