Quoting Adam Green <140...@gmail.com>:
In general, if you are planning on capturing *all* tweets for a set of words or users, and *never* losing any, you are setting an impossible goal. Aiming for a very high level of accuracy is all you are going to achieve. With the right coding 99% or better is possible.
Perhaps Gnip will be able to supply 99.9% or 99.99%. They've certainly got the infrastructure, according to Pete Warden's writeup in RWW (http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/11/why-is-twitter-partnering-with-gnip.php) I wouldn't bet on five nines, though. ;-)
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