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		jerfelix on March 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 50% of Tweets Consumed Are Generated By Just 20K E... I believe you can follow 1000 people who don't follow you. So I think the Grandparent post was saying 20 accounts, each following a different 1000 people = 20K people followed, equals 50% firehose.

djb_hackernews on March 27, 2011 | [–]

The twitter streaming api lets you track 5k users

http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api

so you'd only need 4 users and 4 clients running on 4 AWS micro instances.

But Twitter will shut you down once they find you syndicating the content.

abraham on March 28, 2011 | [–]

2000. http://support.twitter.com/articles/66885-i-can-t-follow-peo...

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