Twitter’s standard Streaming API is always capped to 1% of the current volume of the full firehose.

s have estimated… the current traffic. Studies have estimated that using Twitter’s Streaming API users can expect to receive anywhere from 1% of the tweets to over 40% of tweets in near real-time. (reference website)
Fun with analyzing @BillGates tweets Twitter API’s-Step by Step analysis
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Andy Piper
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May 11, 2019
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Twitter’s standard Streaming API is always capped to 1% of the current volume of the full firehose. The analysis you refer to is 6 years old, and may be inaccurate.
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