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Re:50% of Tweets Consumed Are Generated By Just 20K Elite Users by ryanhuff on Saturday March 26, 2011 @10:04PM (#2373893)
Why bother creating the accounts when you could just use RSS. Polling every minute should be sufficient.

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/259379883.rss

Winning.

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Re:50% of Tweets Consumed Are Generated By Just 20K Elite Users by djb_hackernews on Saturday March 26, 2011 @10:19PM (#2373931)
Twitter won't allow that.

You could use the api

http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api

but then twitter would come after you if you tried to syndicate the content.

So then you have to deal with Gnip... and thats 10 cents/1000 tweets.

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