For a new project we'll need to retrieve the text of recent statuses for a large group of specific users (several thousand to start), matching a smaller list of keyword strings. Both the users and keywords will grow over time but the keyword set will probably remain at least an order of magnitude smaller than the set of users and grow more slowly Real time is not important and the statuses can be a few hours old. Is using the 'shadow' method of the Streaming API with a negative 'count' parameter the best way to do this with a minimum load on the API? If so, what's the best way to obtain the access needed? It looks like the initial base of users is going to outstrip the 'filter' method's limitation, and 'filter' doesn't allow for the use of 'count' in the default role.
Thanks --Lee Semel Recent Twitter projects: http://muckrack.com - http://venturemaven.com - http://twittorati.com - http://shortyawards.com - http://shortyawards.com/twitter_pro/
