Sounds consistent with what I've been seeing. Where did you get your impression of how the streaming API is "optimized"? I am having a hard time finding any authoritative documentation describing what the powers that be at Twitter *intend* to be included in the stream (as opposed to what they actually *implemented*, which may differ from intentions for a variety of reasons).
If what you say is true, it kind of limits to use-cases of the streaming API to a far narrower set than what one would think by reading the Streaming API documentation. There's one section of the documentation that attempts to describe how to implement a system that utilizes the streaming API and avoids missing any tweets. Obviously if the stream of tweets is already a reduced subset, then it doesn't matter very much if you miss a few. Brian Maso On Jan 9, 4:06 pm, Bess <bess...@gmail.com> wrote: > Streaming API is build by Twitter while Search API is build by Startup > Summize acquired by Twitter. Search API is rate-limited. > > If you just use Twitter search feature, you may see everything. Using > Search API to display API returned results is limited by your > developer API. > > Streaming API may not show everything b/c it is optimized on the > content based on its logarithm. > > On Jan 9, 2:29 pm, Brian Maso <br...@blumenfeld-maso.com> wrote: > > > What I did is opened up three separate normal browser tabs in Firefox, > > each using the Twitter search web interface to search for three > > different hashtags ("#ces", "ces11", and "nfl" -- examples of three > > tags that should have decent ongoing traffic). > > > At the same time I have an application capturing tweets from the same > > three hashtags using the streaming API ("filter.json? > > q=#ces,#ces11,#nfl", with appropriate URL encoding). > > > Irregardless of the amount of time, the streaming application captured > > about 25% fewer tweets. Detailed analysis of the tweet IDs captured by > > the browsers vs. those captured by the standalone application > > retrieving tweets via the streaming API verified that there were > > tweets delivered through the browsers that did not appear through the > > streaming API. There were no tweets delivered through the streaming > > API that did not also appear in the set of tweets delivewred through > > the browsers. > > > I would love it if anyone else would try a similar experiment and > > report back results. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, or maybe this is > > an anomaly, or maybe the streaming API just doesn't capture as much -- > > impossible for me to say. > > > I note that the streaming API documentation doesn't claim an intent to > > match accuracy with the search API (nor vice versa). At this point I'm > > thinking to get the greatest accuracy I should be collecting tweets > > from *both* APIs. > > > Brian Maso > > > On Jan 7, 5:08 pm, Bess <bess...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > This is hard to believe. Streaming API is an approved API that should > > > not have any limit. It should give you everything without any limit. > > > On the other hand Search API has rate-limitation. > > > > Did you use any filter? > > > > On Jan 6, 9:42 pm, Brian Maso <br...@blumenfeld-maso.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > Using the Streaming API, I'm noticing about a 25% loss rate when > > > > tracking multiple hashtags vs. using the good old Search API. I'm > > > > fouind it hard to believe this is true, so I tested over and over, but > > > > I keep getting the same results. The Streaming API just seems to not > > > > provide a fair number of tweets. > > > > > Note that I have the lowest rate limit with the Streaming API -- > > > > perhaps highest rate limits have lower loss rates. > > > > > Has anyone else noticed the rate loss Streaming vs. Search API? Or am > > > > I on crack? > > > > > Does the loss rate get lower with the higher Streaming API account > > > > limits? > > > > > Brian Maso > > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk