Twitter streaming via curl

streaming_via_curl.sh

# Common initialization to all commands below. Change USERNAME and PASSWORD accordingly.
export user=USERNAME
export pass=PASSWORD

#Sample (gardenhose or spritzer based on your access levels)
curl -3 --verbose -u$user:$pass https://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/sample.json > /dev/null

# Firehose
curl -3 --verbose -u$user:$pass https://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/firehose.json > /dev/null

# Firehose with compressed stream, check content-encoding in response header to make sure you're receiving gzipped stream.
curl -3 --compressed --verbose -u$user:$pass https://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/firehose.json > /dev/null