The twitter RSS feeds has the same rate limits. Patrick, you may want to check out http://gnipcentral.com/ I haven't used it yet, but they supposedly let you pull tweets by specific (public) users. For profile info, you would need to spread requests out over multiple hours. I doubt you would need real-time profile info anyways since it rarely changes.
@dsims On Feb 7, 12:36 am, Andrew Badera <and...@badera.us> wrote: > If you're dealing with specific people, why not subscribe to their RSS feeds > instead? > > If you're dealing with specific terms, use hash tags and/or the search API. > > Thanks- > - Andy Badera > - and...@badera.us > - (518) 641-1280 > - Tech Valley Code Camp 2009.1:http://www.techvalleycodecamp.com/ > - Google me:http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew+badera > > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Patrick Minton <patr...@lexblog.com> wrote: > > So I've talked to my boss a bit about this and it appears the upper bound > > on tweeters that lextweet <http://www.lextweet.com> would end up following > > is something like 20000 - 30000 members. > > The idea of lextweet is not to follow legal posts (so I can't use > > tagging/etc), but instead to act as a page where lawyers can easily discover > > other lawyers who tweet -- even if they aren't necessarily tweeting about > > the law. For instance, some lawyer in Georgia might want to connect to > > another lawyer in Georgia and then they might both start a conversation > > about the Hawks or the Falcons. > > > So if I am building an app that tracks the tweets and profiles of that many > > users, what's the best practice? Right now I have one (whitelisted) user > > following about 2k ppl so that each time I query twitter I only have to make > > one request for one timeline, and I only query twitter once a day to update > > profile info. If I abandoned having this special user to follow ppl, and > > instead kept the users in a database and queried twitter for each user's > > timeline that's a LOT more API requests. > > > Are there any of you who own apps of a similar scope and scale? What do > > you do? What does the Twitter API team recommend? > > > Patrick > > > On Feb 1, 2009, at 5:50 PM, Alex Payne wrote: > > > Whitelisted users can follow a few more users. But we really don't > > encourage following a ton of people. > > > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 14:38, Patrick Minton <patr...@lexblog.com> wrote: > > > Does being whitelisted also mean that you can follow more than 2000 > > > people without having 2000 followed? Lextweet.com uses a twitter > > > account to follow members of the legal community and we are rapidly > > > approaching 2000 > > > Patrick > > > -- > > Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. > >http://twitter.com/al3x > > > Patrick Minton > > IT Director > > LexBlog, Inc. > > +1 206 204 3211
