[twitter-dev] Re: how are people collecting spritzer/gardenhose?

2009-05-26 Thread pplante
I am using python to implement a process which listens to the stream and places all incoming data onto a message queue service. A few other worker processes in the background work off the queue and store the data. The message queue is not fault tollerant at this time, however with a simple

[twitter-dev] Re: Poll: Demographics of Twitter Dev--please answer a few questions

2009-05-22 Thread pplante
I created a Google Docs Form for this. It can be accessed via: http://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?key=rIpaN9uOwhiJnq2I0jqMPPw Google automatically summarizes this data for us, also it can be made public. For results goto:

[twitter-dev] Re: The Data Mining Feed has troubles?

2009-05-22 Thread pplante
You may want to switch to the new streaming API methods. With proper message queue processing you can reach speeds comparable or better than the data mining feed. This switch will likely require more work up front, but in the end it will allow for the most expansion. On May 22, 7:45 am, junki

[twitter-dev] Re: Problem following new followers

2009-05-22 Thread pplante
The rate limiting on follow requests isn't on the wiki. Last I heard it was 1000 follows per day, if you go over that limit then you will be blacklisted for 24 hours from that point. On May 22, 9:11 am, Nial nia...@gmail.com wrote: I have a bot which scans an email account for Twitter follow