- max-tweetsparameter
Determines the maximum number of tweets to be returned by Twitter's streaming endpoints. Streaming endpoints are kept open (barring any network issues) until roughly max-tweets are returned. This is called "max-tweets" because Twitter offers no guarantees about the number of tweets you will receive (and clucker does not count incoming tweets---it simply pipes results to the current port). For example, deleted tweets still count toward your request even though the JSON response for the tweet will be essentially empty. Thus if max-tweets is set to 100, you should expect up to 100 tweets (and likely exactly 100), but should anticipate getting <100. The default is set to 999999999999999999 to be large enough to effectively leave the endpoint open indefinitely.