I can confirm that I am also seeing this via the Site Streams API.

We are checking for messages of type 'tweet' by checking for existence
of 'id_str'. Occasionally, this is missing.

-Craig

On Nov 6, 5:08 pm, Adam Green <140...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My error logs started showing tweets without an id_str value a few
> days ago. I investigated today and found that these tweets are coming
> about 5-6 times an hour out of about 500 tweets per hour. I am using
> Phirehose to gather these tweets from the streaming API. I am
> collecting the tweets in JSON format. Neither my code or Phirehose has
> changed in the recent past, and as I said, about 99% of the tweets are
> fine. Here is an example of a bad tweet. It has a truncated field,
> which I haven't seen before. I assume this has something to do with
> the missing values. Does anyone have any idea what is happening here?
>
>     [new_id_str] => 951769790156802
>     [place] =>
>     [truncated] =>
>     [user] => stdClass Object
>         (
>             [follow_request_sent] =>
>             [time_zone] => Jakarta
>             [url] =>http://lada-hitam.livejournal.com/
>             [profile_background_color] => B2DFDA
>             [screen_name] => MissLadaHitam
>             [profile_background_image_url] 
> =>http://s.twimg.com/a/1288660386/images/themes/theme13/bg.gif
>             [profile_text_color] => 333333
>             [listed_count] => 0
>             [lang] => en
>             [profile_background_tile] =>
>             [statuses_count] => 891
>             [following] =>
>             [favourites_count] => 159
>             [profile_link_color] => 93A644
>             [show_all_inline_media] =>
>             [profile_use_background_image] => 1
>             [description] =>
>             [contributors_enabled] =>
>             [profile_sidebar_fill_color] => ffffff
>             [protected] =>
>             [location] => Indonesia
>             [geo_enabled] =>
>             [name] => Lada Hitam
>             [notifications] =>
>             [friends_count] => 8
>             [profile_sidebar_border_color] => eeeeee
>             [id] => 117790534
>             [verified] =>
>             [utc_offset] => 25200
>             [created_at] => Fri Feb 26 16:36:22 +0000 2010
>             [followers_count] => 18
>             [profile_image_url] 
> =>http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/740195225/42360__1__normal.jpg
>         )
>
>     [in_reply_to_status_id] =>
>     [favorited] =>
>     [source] => web
>     [new_id] => 9.517697901568E+14
>     [contributors] =>
>     [in_reply_to_screen_name] =>
>     [coordinates] =>
>     [retweet_count] =>
>     [in_reply_to_user_id] =>
>     [entities] => stdClass Object
>         (
>             [user_mentions] => Array
>                 (
>                 )
>
>             [hashtags] => Array
>                 (
>                 )
>
>             [urls] => Array
>                 (
>                 )
>
>         )
>
>     [geo] =>
>     [retweeted] =>
>     [id] => 9.517697901568E+14
>     [text] => Today's cookings mostly failed :( It makes me less
> motivated to try another recipe tomorrow. But I have some mushrooms
> that need to be used.
>     [created_at] => Sat Nov 06 16:44:54 +0000 2010
> )

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