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Why? To me it seems simple supply & demand problem. Access to fire-hose is not so expensive. Hardware is dirt cheap, code is not complex either so you can go wi
by gtt 14y ago
Why? To me it seems simple supply & demand problem. Access to fire-hose is not so expensive. Hardware is dirt cheap, code is not complex either so you can go with relatively cheap junior developer for such problem. Also it takes only a little of manager's time.
It would be completely different matter if we were talking about finding patters, predicting trends, etc.
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- tantalor 14y agoFor those curious, https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/sample https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/sample https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/firehose https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/firehose