The percentage of tweets returned by the streaming APIs

tiendh11986 · 2017-09-15T12:29:05.216Z

Hello,
I’m using the Twitter Streaming APIs and I have one question.
As said from here, the stream API returns ~1% of the whole stream volume. I wonder if this amount will change when I adjust input parameters.

Concretely, if I specify the bounding box to a small city, do I get more than 1% (or even all the tweets posted from there)?

Thank you very much.

boxnumber03 · 2017-09-15T13:06:45.961Z

Most likely yes, you will get all the tweets.

On average, roughly 6000 tweets are generated every second. This means, if your filter matches less than 60 tweets in a given second, you will probably get all the tweets in your stream.

Check out the LIMIT notice to confirm that your stream is not missing tweets.