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Twitter API increase rate limit

I need Twitter data for my master thesis. I want to apply for the academic access, however I read that there is a rate limit of 300 requests/15 minutes. How can I understand that, I would need almost a year to pull 10M tweets? Is there a way to pull more tweets in these 15 minutes?

Background: I want to get all tweets referring to specific companies, so I want to search for cashtags.

Thanks in advance.

Solution

  • I know it’s probably too late but i’m undergoing something similar and found a really useful resource called SNScrape. This python module allows for unlimited tweet search requests without the use of the api. Below I’v attached a useful video which I stumbled across. Hope this helps.

    https://youtu.be/jtIMnmbnOFo