Or from another perspective... 140 million tweets per day[1] / 24hr / $0.30 = 19... | Hacker News

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bigiain on April 5, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter Announces Fire Hose Marketplace: Up to 10k...

Or from another perspective...

140 million tweets per day[1] / 24hr / $0.30 = 19.5million tweets per dollar.

_Surely_ there's some valuable data to be gleaned out of 20million tweets?

[1] wildly assuming Techcruch's numbers are connected with reality - http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/14/new-twitter-stats-140m-twee...

PanMan on April 5, 2011 [–]

From their pricing calculator it seems the deliver max 2k tweets per hour. Way less than your 6 million, and not that useful.

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