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Is the Sample Good Enough? Comparing Data from Twitter's Streaming API with Twitter's Firehose.

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Very, very interesting! This paper addresses the important question of how using Twitter's limited streaming API biases results in comparison to Firehose access. Surprisingly they find that for geo-tagged tweets the same amount of tweets is returned for limited bounding boxes.

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