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		ryanhuff on March 27, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 50% of Tweets Consumed Are Generated By Just 20K E... Why bother creating the accounts when you could just use RSS. Polling every minute should be sufficient. http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/259379883.rss Winning.

djb_hackernews on March 27, 2011 [–]

Twitter won't allow that.

You could use the api

http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api

but then twitter would come after you if you tried to syndicate the content.

So then you have to deal with Gnip... and thats 10 cents/1000 tweets.

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