looking at the tweet ids it looks like the spitzer stream delivers 5 tweets every hundreds this would make it a 5% of the firehose
am i correct? Stephane http://www.twazzup.com On May 25, 12:17 am, elversatile <[email protected]> wrote: > How are spritzer statuses sampled? Are they picked uniformly at > random? Or is there some logic behind it? > > Also, what makes it "statistically insignificant"? Is it its > percentage in relation to the entire stream or the way it is sampled? > > Thanks, > -Eldar > > On May 24, 8:23 pm, John Kalucki <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sven, > > > Excluding connection ramp-up and ramp-down skew, each spritzer feed > > delivers the same statuses as all other spritzer feeds. Likewise, each > > gardenhose feed delivers the same statuses as all other gardenhose > > feeds. Also, spritzer feeds are a strict subset of gardenhose feeds. > > There's no point in consuming multiple sampled feeds (spritzer/ > > spritzer, gardenhose/spritzer, gardenhose/gardenhose), as you'll just > > receive duplicate data. > > > Multiple sessions on sampled feeds just waste scarce resources and you > > also may find your access automatically limited for a period of time. > > Reduce, reuse, recycle! > > > -John Kalucki > > Services, Twitter Inc. > > > On May 24, 10:51 am, Sven Svensson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Thanks for an excellent API. > > > > I have two questions in relation to the streaming API: > > > > * Assume that two users are both reading the spritzer stream at the same > > > time - will they get the same spritzer streams covering the same subset of > > > all tweets, or will they get two separate spritzer streams covering > > > different tweets? > > > > * Roughly what percentage of all tweets are distributed in the spritzer > > > stream? Is it in the region of four percent of all tweets (my > > > guesstimate)? > > > > Thanks!
