Twitter Streaming Spark : how many filter keywords can i have with a streaming context?

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I am using a spark streaming context to stream twitter data using the api below in scala. https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.0.0/api/java/org/apache/spark/streaming/twitter/TwitterUtils.html

I wanted to know how many filter keywords can I give to create streaming function?. (3rd parameter of the function below)

TwitterUtils.createStream(ssc,None,keywords)

How many filter keywords can the twitter API handle.

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I would really appretiate if people let me know the reason the question was downvoted?. This will help me get better. Thanks - Krishna Kalyan

2 Answers

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According to this question, it seems that twitter limits you not according to the numer of filters you supply, but the overall volume you're allowed to consume. It seems like the limit is %1 of total tweets.

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You can enter a set of keywords as a filter to track twitter, according to current limitations you can track up to 400 keywords.