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[saryant]

Delivering old tweets is actually more expensive than real-time because nothing is cached. Streaming access is pretty much all served out of memory.

I used to lead the search and historical API team at Twitter.

[anigbrowl → saryant]

Right, the 30 day search API is still 100 request/mo for the sandbox and 500/mo for the bottom paid tier (which I think is $150/mo). Would love to hear more from you about this experience, whether in blog form or commentary. I use the filtered stream API a lot and the search API a bit.

[jghn → saryant]

Oh I’m sure. My point was just that the use cases least likely to be able to afford paying are clustered on historical data. And those clustered on real-time data tend to involve $$ anyways

[saryant → jghn]

We gave academic researchers free access to the full archive search API to help cover that use case.