On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Kyle B wrote:
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>> Thanks for the info. It helps a lot. Figuring out an accurate number
>> is essential to my model, so much so that I am determined to find some
>> method of estimating it to acceptabl
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Scott Haneda wrote:
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> And you don't think the streaming API will answer that for you?
It can't, can it? It isn't the complete stream, only a sampled subset.
There's no way to know which IDs were skipped in order to obfuscate the
actual number of tweets. A mi
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Kyle B wrote:
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> Thanks for the info. It helps a lot. Figuring out an accurate number
> is essential to my model, so much so that I am determined to find some
> method of estimating it to acceptable margins of error!
It occurs to me that perhaps this might not
And you don't think the streaming API will answer that for you?
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On Oct 14, 2009, at 3:27 PM, Kyle B wrote:
Thanks for the info. It helps a lot. Figuring out an accurate number
is essential to my model, so much so that I am
Thanks for the info. It helps a lot. Figuring out an accurate number
is essential to my model, so much so that I am determined to find some
method of estimating it to acceptable margins of error!
- Kyle
On Oct 14, 5:19 pm, Nick Arnett wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Kyle B wrote:
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On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Kyle B wrote:
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> 1. How are tweet IDs incremented? Do they increase by a factor of 1,
> 2, 5, 10...?
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I've asked that question previously and the answer was a definitive "We
aren't telling." It seems to be considered a significant enough trade
secret that I
On Oct 14, 2009, at 8:38 AM, Kyle B wrote:
I am creating a mathematical model based on some results from
Twitter's API, but I am missing one critical number in the model. I
need to estimate the number of total tweets in the USA each day. The
better an estimate I get and the less assumptions I