Hi,
I have a big list of Twitter users stored in a database, almost 1000.
I would like to use the Streaming API in order to stream tweets from these users, but I cannot find an appropriate way to do this.
Help would be very much appreciated.
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A:
According to the Twitter API documentation, you can only use the streaming API to follow up to 400 users. For more than that, you'll have to request an increased access level for the account you use to access the API.
balpha
2010-01-23 15:54:53
Thank you balpha, that was a very helpful answer!Do you know if using the streaming API would affect the basic 20k req/hour?
RadiantHex
2010-01-23 15:59:30
@RadiantHex: I wouldn't think so; as far as I get it, the standard rate limits ( http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting ) and the streaming API limits are totally separate things. Even if that wasn't the case, it's still just one request, even if you stream for 24 hours, right? :)
balpha
2010-01-23 16:10:17
Thank you very much for your help balpha! :)
RadiantHex
2010-01-23 19:32:23