Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Search API - Questions Regarding Scaling Out

2011-04-13 Thread Stuart Dallas
You may want to take a look at http://datasift.net/ -Stuart -- Stuart Dallas 3ft9 Ltd http://3ft9.com/ On Monday, 11 April 2011 at 16:14, Corey Ballou wrote: I tried speaking with Ryan Sarver directly, but he's forwarding me here to the community advocates to answer. I believe this answer

[twitter-dev] Twitter Search API - Questions Regarding Scaling Out

2011-04-11 Thread Corey Ballou
I tried speaking with Ryan Sarver directly, but he's forwarding me here to the community advocates to answer. I believe this answer will need to come top down from Twitter, as it's your rate limiting that I'm most worried about. I have a technical question for all of you in regards to the Search

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Search API - Questions Regarding Scaling Out

2011-04-11 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
I don't see an answer here, but I'll tell you how *I* would go about implementing this: 1. Switch to the Streaming API. Using Search in an application puts a strain on Twitter's servers and makes it difficult to Twitter to manage capacity. That's why it's rate-limited and why the rate limits