The gardenhose is very very roughly 3x the default access level (aka Spritzer). The algorithm is slightly complicated, and the inputs vary, thus, vagueness.
-John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:05 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <zzn...@gmail.com>wrote: > I don't know anything about "gardenhose", but I do have some data from > "sample". Assuming Twitter's published number of 50 million tweets per day > is the full firehose (minus spam, according to the blog post), I've > estimated that a typical weekday on "sample" is delivering over 3 percent of > the total tweet volume. > > My peak from "sample" this past week was 95,006 tweets for the hour > starting "2010-02-24 01:59:59 +0000". The average JSON tweet is about 1400 > bytes. That peak represents a bit rate of about 300 K bits per second. > -- > M. Edward (Ed) Borasky > borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky/ > > "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul > Erdos > > > > Quoting Mark McBride <mmcbr...@twitter.com>: > > Hard numbers aren't made public, but it's safe to assume "significantly >> more >> than spritzer" >> >> ---Mark >> >> http://twitter.com/mccv >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:30 AM, rb <rbha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Does anybody knows roughly the gardenhose access to streaming API >>> provides what % of total tweets. >>> >>> >> >
