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!

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