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		jchook on July 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement IIRC "the firehose" is around 10%

dfabulich on July 9, 2022 | [–]

No, you're thinking of the "decahose." The "Firehose" is the whole thing.

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/enterprise...

> The Decahose delivers a 10% random sample of the realtime Twitter Firehose through a streaming connection.

whiplash451 on July 9, 2022 | | [–]

Shouldn’t it be called the Decihose, then? The name is confusing.

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