On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:10:13 -0700 (PDT), "Ryan Sarver (@rsarver)"
<[email protected]> wrote:
Also as we stated before, you can use User Streams or Site Streams
and
get more data by getting more users to authorize your application.
Ryan, it's not as simple as "getting more users to authorize your
application." You need to get *all* your users to *explicitly* authorize
the application's *exact* usage of their data! Users tend not to "read
the fine print". I'd hate to see some data collection / analytics
application make some assumptions based on the implicit openness of the
tweet stream and then get nailed by a bunch of angry users. Angry users
tend to write to their Congressmen and Senators. ;-)
Managing a *single* user's User Streams feed is a relatively
straightforward coding task - I've got a smallish Perl script that can
do it for my own account. Managing multiple users' Site Streams is a
much more complex endeavor, and to use that mechanism for a data
collection / analytics application is ludicrous IMHO. Somehow, the
notion of "the right tool for the job" seems to have been ignored. ;-)
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