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capablanca

I'll take a look at the streaming API.

"You can also get full firehose access if it really does become successful (...)"

Sorry, I don't understand what "firehose access" means in this context. Care to explain? :)

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http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting

and

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/...

should help.

Firehose gives you all the tweets in almost realtime. Its the big brother of the gardenhose. Its not publicly available. I would like to know what the conditions are to get it.

Is just asking nicely enough?

Twitter announced at LeWeb in December that they would open the Firehose to all developers in “early 2010”: http://mashable.com/2009/12/09/twitter-firehose/

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