Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Retrieving new tweets for 40-60 thousand users

2010-07-23 Thread John Kalucki
You cannot open 300,000 streams. First, you don't have auth tokens for all of your user's followings. Second, that would be against the access policy. Instead, you can perform this following with elevated access via the 'shadow' role on stream.twitter.com. This will allow you to follow 80,000 publ

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Retrieving new tweets for 40-60 thousand users

2010-07-21 Thread Pascal Jürgens
Patrick, given this explanation, you will need a lot of streams. 60k users with an average of 100 friends (low estimate) Let's guess that every user shares 50% of the friends with others This gives us: 60.000 * 100 *.5 = 3 million In order to track 3 million users with the follow stream, you ne