Hi Adam, thanks for your answer. That is about what I'm telling them all the time, but hearing this from someone else makes me feel a little more confident. I wish you and everyone who cares about it a nice christmas time! Frank
Adam Green schrieb: > I just did a quick count of tweets per day over that period for two systems > that track keywords. One looks steady for the 16th. The other glitched on > the 16th and had to be restarted. Depending on how you track the streaming > API, what I experienced as a failed connection may have been just a > temporary loss for you. So the answer is maybe. The fact that software works > for a long time with the API is no guarantee it will continue to do so. I > look at that as job security. > > If your bosses are "very angry" over lost tweets from the API, they have a > lot of stress to look forward to. They should deal with it. The data is > free, right? If they want no losses, they can pay Gnip. That is what it is > there for. > > On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Frank Sorro <xoo9i...@googlemail.com>wrote: > > > Hi Twitter admins and developers, > > I am developing a social media application which uses a follow stream > > with track words. At about 21:00 on Dev 16 2010 (UTC), the tweet rate > > rapidly dropped from about 2800 tweets per minute to about 700, > > including none we are looking for. Since today (Dec 18th) at about > > 5:15 UTC, the rate is continuously rising again. This is weird because > > nothing was changed and we lost the tweets of almost two days. > > I am quite certain my software didn't have a problem because it worked > > properly for quite some time, and I didn't change anything during this > > time. > > Is it possible that the Twitter Stream API may behave this way? The > > API status page does not report any problems, but maybe it does not > > report this kind of problems because I did get Tweets, but not enough > > and not the right ones seemingly. > > It would be very good to hear something from Twitter admins or other > > developers who had the same problem because my bosses are very angry > > with me anyway right now. If it helps, I'll send more info by e-mail. > > Thanks in advance and best regards, Frank > > > > -- > > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > > http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > > Change your membership to this group: > > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > > > > > > -- > Adam Green > Twitter API Consultant and Trainer > http://140dev.com > @140dev -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
