Hi Sven, well I merely assumed that the easiest way for twitter to send a subset of tweets on spitzer was to send them based on their ids (autoincrement integer)... watching at the stream, I noticed that "all" the ids where ending with 000,001,002,003,004, 100,102, ... 900,901,... 904
I did not push the analysis further though On May 26, 3:24 am, Sven Svensson <twitterf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Stephane, > > I used the following calculation to obtain a four percent estimate for > the spritzer stream: > tweets_seen_in_stream / (max_tweet_id_seen_in_stream - > min_tweet_id_seen_in_stream) > > Did you use the same methodology? > > The four percent is probably a bit too low as I assume private tweets > get tweet_id:s too, which makes the denominator a bit too large due to > private tweets being included. > > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:39 PM, stephane > > <stephane.philipa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > looking at the tweet ids it looks like the spitzer stream delivers 5 tweets > > every hundreds > > this would make it a 5% of the firehose > > > am i correct? > > > Stephane > >http://www.twazzup.com
