So, I actually think that this is a very interesting idea ... but I would turn it around a little and ask: Would people be interested in creating a peer-to-peer network ala bit torrent for access to tweets?
The idea is that we would create a point system where you make data available and you consume data for your own purposes. The more data you provide (read provide more connections to others) the more connections to other you can get. Since none of the private tweets can come across the streaming api, there is no worries about privacy, and since every request from one peer to another is done as a specific temporal slice, we don't run up against 5/ii of the stream api license. Thoughts? On Jul 22, 6:41 pm, braver <delivera...@gmail.com> wrote: > After we lost a few days of gardenhose, I'm wondering whether it would > be OK for us gardenhosers to back up each other. In case we do > research, for instance -- as we do at Dartmouth. > > I suggest the following: say you lost a day or a few within the range > since you were authorized, and are a member of our garden variety > cooperative. You ask me to fill you in, and tell me the day you > started gathering the hose. I pick a day for which you have data, and > ask you to verify a few tweets somehow -- e.g. tell me which tweet ids > there are for a certain user id. > > Would it be OK to self-organize like that, and who'd be our buddy? > Cheers, > Alexy
