I'd suggest calculating the binomial proportion confidence interval assuming a very large n. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at the interval given n = 2.5mm/day on the Spritzer feed...
Well, you learn something new every day. Apparently the central limit theorem apparently holds for p as small as .000002 given n of 2.5mm. So, if your client is generating pretty much any traffic at all, the interval will be pretty reasonable. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Harshad RJ <harshad...@gmail.com> wrote: > What I meant was that searching with "source:clientName" requires atleast > one keyword to be specified. Which means that you can't get all those tweets > which don't have that keyword. > > Moreover, searching for common english words like "a", "an", or "the" > (often) doesn't return any results. > > The idea of sampling the streaming API is a decent alternative for already > popular clients, but will yield inaccurate results for new clients, because > their tweets are easily submerged in the stream. > > > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com>wrote: > >> its true - search doesn't return all the tweets as it is returning "the >> best tweets". unfortunately, the streaming API will not allow you to get a >> stream of all the tweets by source either. what are you trying to achieve? >> are you looking for relative volumes? if so, then just watch a sample of >> tweets and make an estimate? >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Harshad RJ <harshad...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Err, but this does't show *all* tweets of a client. >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com>wrote: >>> >>>> from http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-search >>>> >>>> http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=landing+source:tweetie >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Christian < >>>> christian.frei...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi There, >>>>> >>>>> is it possible to reveal all Tweets placed by a specific client (my >>>>> client)? >>>>> >>>>> Hope someone could help me >>>>> >>>>> THX Chris >>>>> >>>> >>>> > -- > Harshad RJ > http://hrj.wikidot.com >
