On Oct 14, 2009, at 8:38 AM, Kyle B wrote:
I am creating a mathematical model based on some results from
Twitter's API, but I am missing one critical number in the model. I
need to estimate the number of total tweets in the USA each day. The
better an estimate I get and the less assumptions I
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Kyle B kylebarn...@gmail.com wrote:
1. How are tweet IDs incremented? Do they increase by a factor of 1,
2, 5, 10...?
I've asked that question previously and the answer was a definitive We
aren't telling. It seems to be considered a significant enough
Thanks for the info. It helps a lot. Figuring out an accurate number
is essential to my model, so much so that I am determined to find some
method of estimating it to acceptable margins of error!
- Kyle
On Oct 14, 5:19 pm, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:38
And you don't think the streaming API will answer that for you?
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On Oct 14, 2009, at 3:27 PM, Kyle B wrote:
Thanks for the info. It helps a lot. Figuring out an accurate number
is essential to my model, so much so that I
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Kyle B kylebarn...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the info. It helps a lot. Figuring out an accurate number
is essential to my model, so much so that I am determined to find some
method of estimating it to acceptable margins of error!
It occurs to me that
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Scott Haneda talkli...@newgeo.com wrote:
And you don't think the streaming API will answer that for you?
It can't, can it? It isn't the complete stream, only a sampled subset.
There's no way to know which IDs were skipped in order to obfuscate the
actual
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Kyle B kylebarn...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the info. It helps a lot. Figuring out an accurate number
is essential to my model, so much so that I am determined to find some
