[capablanca]

I'll take a look at the streaming API.

"You can also get full firehose access if it really does become successful (...)"

Sorry, I don't understand what "firehose access" means in this context. Care to explain? :)

[aditya]

http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting

and

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/...

should help.

[biafra]

Firehose gives you all the tweets in almost realtime. Its the big brother of the gardenhose. Its not publicly available. I would like to know what the conditions are to get it.

Is just asking nicely enough?

[thamer]

Twitter announced at LeWeb in December that they would open the Firehose to all developers in “early 2010”: http://mashable.com/2009/12/09/twitter-firehose/