Filter realtime Tweets
Overview contents
The Twitter API platform offers two options for streaming realtime Tweets. Each option offers a varying number of filters and filtering capabilities - see the below summary for more details:
API | Category | Number of filters | Filtering operators | Rule management |
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statuses/filter | Standard | 400 keywords, 5,000 userids and 25 location boxes |
Standard operators | One filter rule on one allowed connection, disconnection required to adjust rule |
PowerTrack | Enterprise | Up to 250,000 filters per stream, up to 2,048 characters each | Premium operators | Thousands of rules on a single connection, no disconnection needed to add/remove rules using Rules API |