Quoting Ryan Sarver <rsar...@twitter.com>:
Many of you may wonder what this means for elevated access and whitelisting requests. Our default levels like Spritzer, Follow and Track will not be changing, and will remain free and available directly from Twitter. Companies and developers are encouraged to begin development with these free APIs, available at http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api.
Is "Spritzer" still 1% of the Firehose? Since the status IDs are no longer sequential, the previous "obvious" sampling algorithm - "status ID mod 100 == 0" - no longer will work.
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