[twitter-dev] Best way to follow up on link stream access

2010-10-20 Thread Terry Smith
Hi all! We submitted an application (via a bit.ly form link) for access to the link stream/fire hose about 2.5 weeks ago and haven't yet received a response. We've been working with the filter stream so far and need more access to go beta and actually launch paid accounts for our start- up. What

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate limit for streaming api (tracking keyword)

2010-10-29 Thread Terry Smith
I don't think that's entirely true. If the keyword goes above a certain frequency then it will get rate limited (for example we have an open stream for "http" to get links and only see about 20% of the overall links). We're seeing about 50 tweets / second so I would imagine you'll be less than th