For the last 3 months I am experimenting the Search API. I'm focusing on the geo-location searching capabilities.
For the beginning I started with my own city, but my intents are to extend to the major cities of my country: that will be at most ten. My idea of application is to offer real-time activity on each major city, through a proxy that caches all tweets and then serves them further to clients, filtered or non-filtered. Frequency of requests should be between 5 to 10 seconds, and that means I should do between 400 to 800 requests per hour just for one city, and probably between 4000 to 8000 requests for the whole application. My questions are: 1). Should I use Search API, or should I move to the Streaming API?! 2). To whom I should request whitelisting: the usual Search API or the Streaming API?! Thanks!
