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Twitter API Limitations

The cluster discusses challenges with Twitter's API, including rate limits, high costs, limited tweet access (e.g., last 3000 tweets), and the need for firehose or user account workarounds to collect data at scale.

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jalada • Jul 27, 2013 • View on HN

We don't...it's not particularly heavy on Twitter API usage. What are you thinking of?

philjohn • Apr 24, 2022 • View on HN

How do they get around only being able to get at your last 3000 tweets?

bishalb • Feb 15, 2020 • View on HN

Probably by using Twitter's API.

c0mbonat0r • Aug 4, 2024 • View on HN

isnt the twitter api super expensive? how did you get around that?

jmillerinc • Jul 19, 2010 • View on HN

Because twitter is unstable, and the api is rate-limited.

sreejata • Nov 6, 2013 • View on HN

The Twitter API calls are rate limited and it would be impossible to handle any meaningful traffic.

mavhc • Sep 30, 2022 • View on HN

Turns out twitter's not so bad at managing a few million users after all

BiteCode_dev • May 30, 2020 • View on HN

At twitter scale, doing anything is costly.

mkaziz • Jul 13, 2015 • View on HN

Twitter doesn't hog that much data.

luckylion • Dec 3, 2022 • View on HN

But Twitter does allow this, they just rate-limit their APIs.