Stream API: are all tweets or just a fraction of them?

[mm4r14b]

Hi,

I’ve gone thought the posts and haven’t been able to figure out how the rate limit works for the streaming API.

I’m trying to download tweets related with a specific car company (I’m using the company’s name as keyword) for statistical purposes and what I don’t understand is if there is a limit on the tweet that I obtain or the tweets that I’m receiving are all the tweets posted about that specific company.

Thank you in advance

[andypiper]

The streaming APIs are limited to 1% of the full Tweet stream at any point in time. This means that if your filter / query is populated by less then 1% of all of the Tweets available (typically in the region of 500 million worldwide in 24 hours) then you’ll see all of the available Tweets; if not, you will miss some of them.

If you require full data fidelity then that is available in Twitter’s Gnip Powertrack product.