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Re:DataSift Architecture: Realtime Datamining at 120,000 Twe... by nirvana on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @10:02PM (#3293478)
Where are you getting your tweet feed? My initial interest in data sift was because they let you get a feed from the firehose. Twitter doesn't seem to let you do this.

All I want is tweets relevant to a particular subject, and in the early days I don't want to be paying hundreds of dollars for it... I've got keywords and phrases I can use to find them, if I just had access to an API that would let me. (Maybe twitter offers this, I couldn't find it in the past.)

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Re:DataSift Architecture: Realtime Datamining at 120,000 Twe... by geuis on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @10:43PM (#3293583)
I'm using the stream, but using track filtering. So far it's working very well for my purposes. You are right in that different use cases might need the firehouse and that's where services like gnip and datasift really come in handy. It's too bad that there's not a middle ground.
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Re:DataSift Architecture: Realtime Datamining at 120,000 Twe... by Titanous on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @10:31PM (#3293551)
If you are just looking for keyword streams, they're available for free: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-api/methods
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