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Have you considered using services like Gnip or Datashift who resell Twitter's firehose? It would mean rewriting your service but it would offer long term viab
by jvvlimme 12y ago
Have you considered using services like Gnip or Datashift who resell Twitter's firehose?
It would mean rewriting your service but it would offer long term viability.
- mittermayr 12y agoyes, have considered it, but from first enquiries it seems they are charging rates that are simply impossible to fund at this point, well in the tens of thousands of dollars. I might be able to bring the rates in line with incoming revenue, but this one's a very scary approach, not being vc funded.
- mittermayr 12y agoalso, gnip doesn't seem to have actual real-time access to follow/unfollow events and only access to 1/10th of the public tweet stream, offering a 'sample' of all tweets (which is what the non-whitelisted accounts also have).
- AznHisoka 12y agoyou do realize that sample 10% nonsense is simply untrue if you have a way to get the stream for the X,000,000 most popular accounts on a daily basis right (it has to be because getting streams for a specific account has to have all the tweets, not 10% of them)? Forget the bots, just focus on the active users.