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Re:50% of Tweets Consumed Are Generated By Just 20K Elite Users by djb_hackernews on Saturday March 26, 2011 @10:20PM (#2373934)
The twitter streaming api lets you track 5k users

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

so you'd only need 4 users and 4 clients running on 4 AWS micro instances.

But Twitter will shut you down once they find you syndicating the content.

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