#1

On the full search archive, if you select Premium, you get “1.25M” as Monthly Tweet Cap.

But then you select “level of usage” and it’s “Up to 250 Total requests per month” (for example)

If I am just doing searches and returning tweet & reply info, will I be able to get info about 1.25M tweets or just 250 per month?

It’s so confusing.

#2

It is confusing yeah, ignore the 1.25M Limit - you’ll never hit it. The limits are the number of calls to the endpoint, each call (each successful HTTP call - this includes paginating results and requesting the same thing twice!) in paid premium can retrieve a max of 500 tweets (100 in sandbox) or 30 days worth of tweets, whichever comes first, so you’ll run out of calls quicker than anything - even if you’re on the highest paid tier.

#3

Thanks for clarifying Igor. This seems extremely limited compared to other platforms. For example on YouTube, you get 10,000 requests per day (300,000 /month) as a free starting point. It’s almost hard to believe that a paid teir could be limited to 100 calls per month.

If we have thousands of customers and we’re monitoring tweets/mentions of their names, it seems like we’d run out of quota within minutes of the first day of the month unless we’re paying tens of thousands of dollars.

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#4

The full archive search is not useful for this, unless you really want to backfill really old data. A combination of the recent search api to get the last 7 days, and then the the live filter stream is probably a better thing to implement in my opinion! Both are free but there are other limitations.