#1

I noticed during this week or so a huge increase in “MONTHLY TWEET CAP USAGE”. I added a calculator to my Python script on how many tweets I receive with “Filtered stream”… Yesterday I received something like 8000 tweets but that “MONTHLY TWEET CAP USAGE” increased by over 30 000? Without changing my filters I’m running out of monthly tweet cap usage within 10 days. That has usually lasted well over one month.

Any ideas?
Thanks
-Pete

#2

Yeah that seems way off to me too - but also, are you counting the tweets inside includes, and taking account of any tweets retrieved with other endpoints? (Eg: timelines also count towards the monthly cap)

#3

Hi,

What do you mean with this? “are you counting the tweets inside includes”

And I do not use other endpoints…

-Pete

#4

Actually what I noticed that it’s increasing all the time… Even I have closed all python scripts etc… So I have no idea where those tweets go:slight_smile:

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#5

Oh, I meant that: if you specify expansions, you will sometimes get the original or referenced tweets inside inclides part of the response, eg: a retweet or reply will have a referenced tweet. These referenced tweets also count towards the cap.

Separately, I think there was an error with stream filters a while ago where the lang: filter stopped working that could explain the big spike in tweets from others posting here.