The sample resource is just that, a sample. The default access level quite a lot of data. You can also request a higher sample (the "gardenhose") if your project needs a higher proportion of the statuses.
Allowing a geo predicate on the Streaming API would be very useful thing indeed. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Nov 2, 9:27 am, Walter Smulders <walter.smuld...@gmail.com> wrote: > You could look at the Streaming API, more > specifically:http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/sample.json. I don't know > if this > is a full stream of new public tweets or not (could someone specify > this for me too please?), but it looks like a nice start... > > On Nov 2, 10:37 am, Kal <kallin.nagelb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi everyone. I've been working on a twitter app with a small team for > > about half a year now that is focused on geocoding and mapping of > > tweets. Work so far has been done with dummy data, since the geocoding > > APIs aren't available yet. I've been looking at how I might use the > > upcoming APIs to access real twitter geo data, but it doesn't seem > > possible to get the data that we need. > > > Right now in our test application we have a database of fake tweets > > that include lat/lon coordinates. This allows us to do queries for > > specific regions, periods of time, etc. For example, we need to know > > how many tweets were made within a certain rectangular area (someone's > > mobile screen) within the last hour, week etc. Right now I can get all > > of the tweets in one query, and then perform clustering to display > > them on a map. I cannot see anything in the upcoming APIs that allows > > me access to this sort of data. > > > I've looked > > athttp://search.twitter.com/search.json?geocode=40.757929%2C-73.985506%..., > > but that only gives tweets within a certain radius, and only up to 100 > > at a time. This isn't practical when I need to identify on a map where > > perhaps thousands of tweets have happened over an extended time > > period. I've looked elsewhere and can't see anything that would help > > our situation, save the firehose. I know it says don't contact twitter > > about access, they'll contact you, but there is no way to launch our > > app without access to it. > > > I would love to hear any suggestions people might have as to how I > > could perform the queries I need to perform, or perhaps alternative > > techniques I have neglected to think of. > > > Thanks, > > Kallin Nagelberg
