Check out the filter URL on the streaming API. It will return up to N
tweets a minute, where N is the amount you'd get from a sampled
stream. However it only returns tweets that match track keywords.
Provided the number of filtered tweets is never above the sampled
amount, you won't get limited.
I'm reading the streaming API documentation and have a question about
track keywords. A set of keywords can be used to filter the gardenhose
but it doesn't actually increase your chance of getting tweets that
would not have been included in the unfiltered stream. The gardenhose
is a sample of the f