Key differences between the Twitter and DataSift Streaming APIs

Here are a few of the core difference between the DataSift and Twitter Streaming APIs

• Twitter Streaming API has rate limits on -
  • Volume of Data delivered
  • Number of Keywords to be tracked (limited to 400) 
  • Number of User ID's (limited to 5,000) 
• Twitter Track only supports keywords and user IDs - DataSift supports words, phrases, near word matching, regular expressions, geo radius, and geo polygon.
• DataSift supports full boolean operators to build complex statements
• DataSift's Data Augmentations:
  • Demographic
  • Klout Data (the industry standard for social authority)
  • Language Detection (via tri-grams)
  • Sentiment Analysis
  • Named Entity Extraction
• DataSift supports multi-streaming - allowing one or more streams to be piped down one HTTP stream connection.