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
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