[elliott99]

This is great. There are agencies that would pay a lot of money for something like this for their brands.

[gtt]

Why? To me it seems simple supply & demand problem. Access to fire-hose is not so expensive. Hardware is dirt cheap, code is not complex either so you can go with relatively cheap junior developer for such problem. Also it takes only a little of manager's time.

It would be completely different matter if we were talking about finding patters, predicting trends, etc.

[tantalor]

For those curious,

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

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