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Twitter4J: Live tweetstream? Max update frequency?
Jan 10th, 2010, 4:16pm  
Hi!

I have successfully retrieved tweet lists about a certain keyword using twitter4J.
My question is: What is the maximum update frequency for Twitter without getting banned?

I ask because I have seen the Twistmas tree (search youtube, can't post links, sorry) and it seems to update many times per second. Is it using some kind of streaming update? I could not find any code for the tree sadly  Sad

It would really be great to get up to the second tweet notifications!
Hints are appreciated, thanks!
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Cedric
Re: Twitter4J: Live tweetstream? Max update frequency?
Reply #1 - Jan 10th, 2010, 4:28pm  
talking about this project http://blog.litstudios.com/index.php/archives/27-Interactive-Christmas-Tree-using-Twitter.html


As far as i know and according to the twitter api faq you can update 70 times per hour.

but maybe check out the new twitter stream Api library http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/num_1262217023.html#2
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Re: Twitter4J: Live tweetstream? Max update frequency?
Reply #2 - Jan 10th, 2010, 4:49pm  
hi!
thanks, yes that's the tree.

I tried the twitter stream library, but I get the following error at startup:


connecting to twitter stream htttp://stream.twitter.com:80/1/statuses/filter.json?locations=-180,-90,180,90
couldn't connect to htttp://stream.twitter.com:80/1/statuses/filter.json?locations=-180,-90,180,90: org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connection to htytp://stream.twitter.com:80 refused

what am I doing wrong? (the htttp typos are because I can't post active links, haha)

Using the code at htttp://github.com/mccv/twitter_geo_vis
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Re: Twitter4J: Live tweetstream? Max update frequency?
Reply #3 - Jan 10th, 2010, 11:31pm  
i would say better ask mccv, its his library.
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Re: Twitter4J: Live tweetstream? Max update frequency?
Reply #4 - Jan 17th, 2010, 10:32am  
I just recently made a pretty neat little project using this library.  Initially I had the same problem of 70 updates per hour.  Pretty useless for real time updates.  However, you can request to be whitelisted for your twitter account which gives you 20,000 updates an hour which essentially is limitless.  Here is the link with more info http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting.  You just fill out a simple form about what you are using it for (ie. a processing project) and they get back to you in a few days.  Worked for me, hope you have success as well.

Russell
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Reply #5 - Jan 17th, 2010, 11:20am  
Do they whitelist your twitter account, or requests comming from an ip?
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Re: Twitter4J: Live tweetstream? Max update frequency?
Reply #6 - Jan 19th, 2010, 2:11pm  
It just whitelists whatever twitter account that you provide them.
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