Does the New API Rate Limit of Twitter Impact the Event Sources and Monthly Tweet Read Limit on $100 Basic Plan?

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Hey team, just wondering if anyone has recent experience with the Twitter Event Source and how this relates to the new API rate limits imposed by Twitter. For example if our Twitter account is on the $100 basic plan, the docs imply a 10,000 tweets per month read limit. Does this mean that if we were using the New Tweet Posted Matching Query event source we would be cut off after 10,000 events are emitted each month??

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Hi Cam,

The Pipedream Twitter Sources use polling at an interval you control.

Therefore you can control the how often you poll Twitter to make sure you’re under their 10,000 tweets per month read limit over their API.

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Here’s some quick back of the napkin math.

The Twitter API limit for retrieving tweets is 10,000 requests per month.

There are 43,800 minutes in a month.

Therefore, the maximum polling interval I would suggest is 43,800 / 10,000 which is once every ~5 minutes.

Hope this helps.

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thanks Pierce for your clarification