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by brianbreslin 4445 days ago
were you able to get firehose access for that? or were you just spidering the public tweet stream?
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toomuchtodo 4445 days ago
Most likely spidering; its difficult/expensive to get firehose access.
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pincubator 4445 days ago
no, i just used streaming api to gather the data. you can crawl surprisingly more data with streaming api as opposed to regular api.
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