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That used to be the case, sure. But AFAIK these days you won't get access to the firehose without full authorization from Twitter (and there's a price tag involved).



The firehouse has been under lock and key (except to those with enough $$) for a really long time now, like maybe more than a decade.


You can get A LOT of data for free through their standard streaming API. If you are creative you can pull in about 100 million tweets per day.




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