Taming The Social Media Firehose, Part III – Tumblr (blog.gnip.com)

Part 3 post on consuming social media firehoses... Also, see Part 1 (http://blog.gnip.com/streaming-api/), which gives a high-level view of social media firehoses, Part 2 (http://blog.gnip.com/twitter-reaction-earthquake/), which gives a data science example.