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How many tweets can be collected?

I'm a beginner at Twitter API. I'm going to do sentiment analysis for my paper. So I need to data(user's comments) from Twitter as much as possible. However, I heard that Twitter's policy had changed last year. Its policy restrains that user collect a lot of data..

So I want to know how many tweets can be collected(ex. 5,000 data). Because if they restrain my access token, then I must change it. Also, I wonder it they restrict my access token or IP address.

I use Python with Anaconda, and program will conduct on workstation.

Thanks!

Solution

  • If you are going to using Search API, it said that

    The Twitter Search API searches against a sampling of recent Tweets published in the past 7 days.

    I have used this to collect tweets several months ago, it allows me to collect about 3000 tweets per user.

    It is recommended to using Streaming API.