You are probably getting limit messages when searching for those terms. The filter endpoints will return all tweets up to a predefined percentage of the total tweet stream.
---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Lawrence <lipeng...@gmail.com> wrote: > HI Everyone, > I am wondering if there is a rate limiting for the pushing speed for > the Twitter's streaming API? > > I first use the Twitter searching API to search "a" and it returns > 2300 tweets per min to me. And then I tested "o", it also returned me > around 2400 tweets per min. Now, I tested "track = a, b". > Theoretically, the streaming API should returns me more than 4000 > tweets per min. However, I found the streaming API still only returns > me about 2400 tweets! > > My downloading speed is 16.68Mb/s So it seems that I still have enough > spare bandwidth, but the Twitter just does not push more data to me. > Is this true? Are there any internal limitation has been done by > Twitter? > > Cheers > Lawrence > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+ > unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE > ME" as the subject. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
