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Faridoon
Faridoon

Reputation: 154

Why do I only get real-time tweets from Twitter's streaming API sample endpoint?

As the sample that Twitter provides consists of 1% of all tweets. I expected it to give me random tweets from the past and present - but when I wrote a piece of code in Processing using Twitter4j, it just retrieves the real-time tweets.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 446

Answers (1)

Jonathan
Jonathan

Reputation: 20375

That's incorrect, the public streams "offer samples of the public data flowing through Twitter", so that is real-time data and not historical.

If you did want to retrieve historical Tweets with Twitter4J, you could use the Twitter#search(Query query) method to do it.

Upvotes: 2

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