I am working on a website that generates ideas for brandnames. As part
of this website I need to search twitter for 50 000 words so that I
can analyse the results and use them in one of my algorithms. Do I
need to contact Twitter staff to do this? There are rate limits on
some APIs and not sure if
Streaming API does have a limit on keywords, yes. I think it's 400. You
should contact Twitter (in this case probably a...@twitter.com) for
increased amounts of keywords, although this will probably cost you some
money. (In case of 5 words, probably a lot)
Tom
On 12/24/10 6:20 AM,
It depends on how fast you need these results. The streaming API lets you
collect tweets for up to 400 keywords at one time. You can divide your
keywords into sets of 400 each, and collect tweets for 2 hours per set. That
will let you sample tweets for 50,000 keywords over a 10 day period. If you
