# Elasticsearch twitter river filtered stream question **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 7, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-twitter-river-filtered-stream-question/18510 "2014-07-07T19:53:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Josh\_Harrison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@Josh\_Harrison](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Josh_Harrison)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-twitter-river-filtered-stream-question/18510/1 "2014-07-07T19:53:59Z")
Quick question about the ES twitter river at > **[elastic/elasticsearch-river-twitter](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-river-twitter)** > > elasticsearch-river-twitter - Twitter River Plugin for elasticsearch (STOPPED) The twitter streaming API allows you to filter, and you apparently get up to 1% of the stream total, with our search queries. So, if I were filtering for "coffee", I'd get "coffee" tweets that I wouldn't get if I was just capturing the 1% stream passively. Does the Twitter river use this filter functionality, or does it do its filtering on the ingestion side, ingesting the normal 1% stream and discarding anything that doesn't match -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/b7adb5f1-49a1-4424-8f4e-1c75e15c4cb0%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/b7adb5f1-49a1-4424-8f4e-1c75e15c4cb0%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 10:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-twitter-river-filtered-stream-question/18510/2 "2014-07-07T22:25:36Z")
It uses the filter functionality provided by Twitter API. -- David Pilato | Technical Advocate | [Elasticsearch.com](http://Elasticsearch.com) @dadoonet | @elasticsearchfr Le 7 juillet 2014 à 21:54:02, Josh Harrison ([hijakk@gmail.com](mailto:hijakk@gmail.com)) a écrit: ## Quick question about the ES twitter river at [https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-river-twitter](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-river-twitter) The twitter streaming API allows you to filter, and you apparently get up to 1% of the stream total, with our search queries. So, if I were filtering for "coffee", I'd get "coffee" tweets that I wouldn't get if I was just capturing the 1% stream passively. Does the Twitter river use this filter functionality, or does it do its filtering on the ingestion side, ingesting the normal 1% stream and discarding anything that doesn't match You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/b7adb5f1-49a1-4424-8f4e-1c75e15c4cb0%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/b7adb5f1-49a1-4424-8f4e-1c75e15c4cb0%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/etPan.53bb1e60.625558ec.5cf2%40MacBook-Air-de-David.local](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/etPan.53bb1e60.625558ec.5cf2%40MacBook-Air-de-David.local). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-twitter-river-filtered-stream-question/18510/3 "2017-07-06T01:17:28Z")