Filter realtime Tweets

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A related endpoint is available in Labs. If you haven’t done so, we invite you to join Labs to provide feedback. For more details, see Filtered stream.

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
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

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