How are spritzer statuses sampled? Are they picked uniformly at random? Or is there some logic behind it?
Also, what makes it "statistically insignificant"? Is it its percentage in relation to the entire stream or the way it is sampled? Thanks, -Eldar On May 24, 8:23 pm, John Kalucki <jkalu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sven, > > Excluding connection ramp-up and ramp-down skew, each spritzer feed > delivers the same statuses as all other spritzer feeds. Likewise, each > gardenhose feed delivers the same statuses as all other gardenhose > feeds. Also, spritzer feeds are a strict subset of gardenhose feeds. > There's no point in consuming multiple sampled feeds (spritzer/ > spritzer, gardenhose/spritzer, gardenhose/gardenhose), as you'll just > receive duplicate data. > > Multiple sessions on sampled feeds just waste scarce resources and you > also may find your access automatically limited for a period of time. > Reduce, reuse, recycle! > > -John Kalucki > Services, Twitter Inc. > > On May 24, 10:51 am, Sven Svensson <twitterf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks for an excellent API. > > > I have two questions in relation to the streaming API: > > > * Assume that two users are both reading the spritzer stream at the same > > time - will they get the same spritzer streams covering the same subset of > > all tweets, or will they get two separate spritzer streams covering > > different tweets? > > > * Roughly what percentage of all tweets are distributed in the spritzer > > stream? Is it in the region of four percent of all tweets (my guesstimate)? > > > Thanks!
