[twitter-dev] Any idea to minimize my request number?

2011-07-07 Thread Jean-Yves Kiger
Hi everyone, Here is my project: I would like to make a java programm wich would store as many tweets as possible about one subject using the search API. And once it is done, i would like to get basic informations about their posters, such as their number of followers, number of tweets and so

Re: [twitter-dev] Any idea to minimize my request number?

2011-07-07 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi, You may find better results using the Streaming API instead of the Search API: https://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api Also, if you did have to perform bulk lookups of multiple users, the users/lookup API is superior in that you can perform 80-100 user lookups in a single call: