Bring back the Streaming APIs
Streaming was a VERY good+easy way to get low key sampling data, without digging into heavy duty "last x million tweets" data dumps. A couple of lines of code (ie minimum wasted researcher time) and you could start collecting/analysing data.
It is very much missed.
Not to mention, of course, the damage removing streaming has done to the general Twitter ecosystem: http://apps-of-a-feather.com/
Si Dawson
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Streaming endpoints have always been available, and are still available in the v2 Twitter API. The recently released Academic Research product track increases the access levels to this and other endpoints: https://twittercommunity.com/t/introducing-the-new-academic-research-product-track/148632
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Hi Maziyar- you'll notice that this item is now in the 'nesting' column on our roadmap, under "Follow Graph" functionality (Labs): https://trello.com/b/myf7rKwV/twitter-developer-platform-roadmap
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Maziyar PANAHI
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Hi Pipes,
I do appreciate the new streaming API in Lans as it's called Filtered Stream, however, it does miss the Follow feature as we still have in status/filter API that supports following up to 5000 UserID. Sorry, I couldn't find anything regarding that in Trello.
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The streaming API (also known as statuses/filter) still exists and has exactly the same access criteria as previously. As part of the Labs efforts, we have announced plans to create a new version of this API in the future - see https://trello.com/c/Z8E40gpV/43-filtered-stream-labs
In my experience, the statuses/filter endpoint has been a very common way for researchers to gather data. Code that calls the statuses/filter endpoint continues to work just fine for collecting Tweets today.
You mention "removing streaming", and it's important to clarify that the functionality that was retired last year was *user* streams, which provided home timeline and notification streaming for user events. This has been partially replaced by the Account Activity API.
There are no current plans to build a direct replacement for user streams.
