[twitter-dev] Re: Questions about opening the firehose

2009-12-22 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
BTW, I see that applications that authenticate with oAuth are going to get a 10X increase in the number of API calls they can make per hour. When does that go into effect? On Dec 20, 3:55 pm, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zzn...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 18, 9:23 am, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Questions about opening the firehose

2009-12-20 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Dec 18, 9:23 am, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: Will the geo-hose streaming API return only those tweets which are geo- tagged, or will it also return tweets for users whose location (in profile) falls within the lat, lon specified the geo-hose will only return tweets that

[twitter-dev] Re: Questions about opening the firehose

2009-12-18 Thread Amitab
Hi Raffi, Will the geo-hose streaming API return only those tweets which are geo- tagged, or will it also return tweets for users whose location (in profile) falls within the lat, lon specified. If it returns only tweets that are geo-tagged, I guess the volume of returned tweets will be pretty

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Questions about opening the firehose

2009-12-18 Thread Raffi Krikorian
Will the geo-hose streaming API return only those tweets which are geo- tagged, or will it also return tweets for users whose location (in profile) falls within the lat, lon specified the geo-hose will only return tweets that are geotagged. while the volume may be low (comparably) now, its

[twitter-dev] Re: Questions about opening the firehose

2009-12-17 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Dec 15, 9:58 am, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: Bandwidth is likely to only be a small fraction of your total cost when consuming the firehose. If you want to focus on this small part and ignore all the other dominating costs, the prudent systems engineer would provision 2x to 3x

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Questions about opening the firehose

2009-12-17 Thread Raffi Krikorian
For one thing, I do a lot of location-based processing. I'm quite interested in what's happening in Portland, Oregon, and not so much about the rest of the world. As far as I can tell, there's no geocode parameter for filter. In addition, I can do a search back in time with Twitter search -

[twitter-dev] Re: Questions about opening the firehose

2009-12-17 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Excellent! That's exactly what I need! If something gets past the filter, I can always backsearch for it. On Dec 17, 9:19 pm, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: For one thing, I do a lot of location-based processing. I'm quite interested in what's happening in Portland, Oregon, and not

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Questions about opening the firehose

2009-12-15 Thread John Kalucki
The other levels of Streaming access are not only considerably more cost effective for all parties, they are also (nearly) sufficient for the vast majority of applications. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:16 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Questions about opening the firehose

2009-12-15 Thread Michael Steuer
Just so we all can guestimate if we're equiped for and financially able to consider consumption of the firehose, in average, what's the daily data throughput on a firehose stream? Thanks, Michael. On Dec 15, 2009, at 9:38 AM, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: The other levels of

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Questions about opening the firehose

2009-12-15 Thread John Kalucki
Bandwidth is likely to only be a small fraction of your total cost when consuming the firehose. If you want to focus on this small part and ignore all the other dominating costs, the prudent systems engineer would provision 2x to 3x daily peak to account for traffic spikes, growth, backlog

[twitter-dev] Re: Questions about opening the firehose

2009-12-14 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Thanks!! At this point, I'm not sure I'll be using the firehose even if it is available -I don't think I can afford the pipe width to consume it. ;-) On Dec 14, 9:59 pm, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: There will be further announcements about Streaming API access early next year. -John