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Re: Tweetping, Twitter traffic in real time

#33
post #10

How are they getting the data? Twitter's APIs seem so limited these days.

It struck me seeing this how rare it is now to see any kind of Twitter experiment. Complete 180 from a few years back.

There's so much potential information there, and some very neat things you can do with it. But for me at least, their new API policies completely turned me off of making cool things with it. Not that the API isn't still powerful.

Re: Tweetping, Twitter traffic in real time

#34
Are you sure? the webpage showed me these:

----

The following error was encountered while trying to retrieve the URL: http://tweetping.net/

Connection to 91.121.175.82 failed.

The system returned: (111) Connection refused

The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again.

Your cache administrator is webmaster.

Re: Tweetping, Twitter traffic in real time

#35
post #10

How are they getting the data? Twitter's APIs seem so limited these days.

Data come from the Twitter Streaming API https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis

Is the site getting the firehose stream though? How do you get that level of access?

Re: Tweetping, Twitter traffic in real time

#36

Are you sure? the webpage showed me these: ---- The following error was encountered while trying to retrieve the URL: http://tweetping.net/ Connection to 91.121.175.82 failed. The system returned: (111) Connection refused The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again. Your cache administrator is webmaster.

it's back!

Re: Tweetping, Twitter traffic in real time

#37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Data come from the Twitter Streaming API https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis

Is the site getting the firehose stream though? How do you get that level of access?

They're probably using the 'sample' firehose, which is not protected and still serves a few tweets per second.

Re: Tweetping, Twitter traffic in real time

#38
post #12

This is pretty awesome, but I would like to be able to dig in deeper. After looking at it for a couple minutes, there's really nothing more I can do.

I made a project that is similar - shows a bit more information except its only for the US and you need to search a specific word/hashtag. http://tweetpleth.herokuapp.com/

Re: Tweetping, Twitter traffic in real time

#39
post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is the site getting the firehose stream though? How do you get that level of access?

They're probably using the 'sample' firehose, which is not protected and still serves a few tweets per second.

that looks like a lot more data than a few tweets per second though.

Re: Tweetping, Twitter traffic in real time

#40
post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is the site getting the firehose stream though? How do you get that level of access?

They're probably using the 'sample' firehose, which is not protected and still serves a few tweets per second.

The free version gives access to 1% [1] of all tweets, which seems about right for this.

[1] https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/2752

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