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They are really deprecating whitelisted REST apps in favor of their streaming API. The streaming API is WAY better, especially for time sensitive apps.

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REST API and Streaming API are like apples and oranges, a lot of things just cant be done with the streaming api.Esp. accessing past tweets, search results, social network etc.

A good thing about twitter was that their social network was more open than the facebook's social network, with newer rate limits its going to be really difficult to crawl it.

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