Re: [twitter-dev] Relationship between Gardenhose and Track vs Search API

2010-01-13 Thread Mark McBride
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.

[twitter-dev] Relationship between Gardenhose and Track vs Search API

2010-01-13 Thread Ross Bates
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