Protected statuses are not currently available on the Streaming API. Only public statuses are available. I clarified the Wiki on this point.
-John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Nov 2, 12:56 pm, Adam Green <a...@vibemetrix.com> wrote: > I see that the user data in a stream API response has a protected > field. Does this mean that the stream may return protected tweets, and > it is the developer's responsibility to watch for this and ignore > those tweets? Or should I assume that I can use any tweet in the > stream? The stream API doc says nothing about this.
