[twitter-dev] Basic Streaming API limits question

2011-05-11 Thread Thiago Souza
Hi, This is pretty basic, but I can not find a clear answer. Is multiple connection from same IP to statuses/filter allowed? If not, what's the limit? Thanks, Thiago Souza -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:

Re: [twitter-dev] Basic Streaming API limits question

2011-05-11 Thread Arnaud Meunier
Hey Thiago, Technically, the limit is account based (each account may create only one standing connection to the Streaming API). Why would you like to start multiple connections from the same IP? What is your use case? Remember it is not allowed to get around limits in statuses/filter (or

Re: [twitter-dev] Basic Streaming API limits question

2011-05-11 Thread Thiago Souza
Hi, Basically we are building a twitter monitoring system in which each user specify the tracking keywords. As the number of user grows, naturally, 200 won't be enough, so there will be a need of more connections. So, creating multiple connections from the same IP will be a problem in this

Re: [twitter-dev] Basic Streaming API limits question

2011-05-11 Thread Arnaud Meunier
Yes this will be a problem, as you'd be circumventing the limit in place (400 track keywords for the default access level). Please do not do this, and contact us on a...@twitter.com with as much details as possible on your use case and your implementation :) Arnaud / @rno http://twitter.com/rno