[twitter-dev] Re: user stream api

2011-02-11 Thread DaveH
I too am still worried about the DM limits. If I understand the User API correctly. - The user stream means that an unlimited number of DMs can be received as there is no rate limit on receiving (consuming) of data. - The application would send DMs via the REST API and therefore is limited to

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: user stream api

2011-02-11 Thread Adam Green
Be aware that the streaming API does not deliver everything you are tracking. In theory it delivers everything up to 1% of the total flow of tweets. In practice, I find that it delivers about 95% of the tweets that match your keywords or users. This is fine when sampling, which is what I generally

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: user stream api

2011-02-11 Thread Trevor Dean
I see that other developers are concerned about the future of getting your DM limits increased but I haven't seen a response yet that addresses this. Will there still be a way, on a case by case basis of course where we can request increases for DM limits? Thanks, Trevor On Fri, Feb 11, 2011

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: user stream api

2011-02-11 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:25:07 -0500, Adam Green 140...@gmail.com wrote: Be aware that the streaming API does not deliver everything you are tracking. In theory it delivers everything up to 1% of the total flow of tweets. In practice, I find that it delivers about 95% of the tweets that match your