- [Instructor] In this and the next two videos,
we're going to introduce the Twitter streaming API
and demonstrate how to access the live stream of tweets.
So the tweet stream that you're going to be able to access
is going to give you a randomly selected subset
of the live tweets up to a maximum of 1% of the live tweets
that are coming in throughout the day.
Now according to the website internetlivestats.com,
as of the day of this recording,
Twitter is getting about 8,500 tweets per second
which works out to almost 3/4 of a billion tweets per day.
And given that, that means you have access
for free right now
to as many as possibly 7.5 million tweets a day
and that's already up by 50% since we published this book
on which these videos are based just a few months ago.
So I think when we first wrote about this,
it was probably about six months ago and at the time,
there were approximately 5,000 tweets per day.
And of course that's going to vary daily
based on what's going on in the world as well
so it does go up and down
but these are the current numbers
as of the day I'm recording this video.
So you have access to an absolutely
massive number of tweets.
And of course if you're accessing the live tweet stream
looking for a specific topic,
then the total number of tweets you'll have access to
will be a subset and possibly a small subset
of those 7.5 million a day.