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by atlbeer 4985 days ago
There's two different HTTP Streaming endpoint for Twitter's stream

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/sample

Returns a small random sample of all public statuses. The Tweets returned by the default access level are the same, so if two different clients connect to this endpoint, they will see the same Tweets

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/firehose

Returns all public statuses. Few applications require this level of access. Creative use of a combination of other resources and various access levels can satisfy nearly every application use case.