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The twitter user stream docs state

Note that User Streams are not intended for server-to-server connections.

To maintain some metrics (when the user is away) I need to run a user stream from my server.

I cant user the public stream API as it does not allow me to track more than 400 words.

What happens if I start user stream(s) from my server for, say, a thousand users?

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  • I think you should go for `site streams`, you can find them below in the same link you've provided. – lrnzcig May 20 '15 at 10:39
  • @lrnzcig : unfortunately, site streams don't allow me to track specific keywords. – Osama Hussain May 20 '15 at 10:46
  • Well, you can't have everything I guess... I don't know what would happen if you use user streams with 1000 users. I guess you will get an error response similar to the ones for rate limits. – lrnzcig May 20 '15 at 10:48
  • @lrnzcig : Thanks, guess I'll just have to try and see. I'll leave this open in case any one else has already tried it and would like to enlighten me. – Osama Hussain May 20 '15 at 11:23

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Although it is not intended but it is technically possible.

Tested with twitter4j on my server.

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