In Twitter Developer Agreement and Policy, rate limits are defined. See also: rate limits and rate limiting. (I'm using twitteR in R.) From these documents, I don't understand whether there are limits to the maximum number of tweets that I can scrape in a week (e.g.). E.g., what happens if I scrape 20,000 or 40,000 tweets every day?
EDIT
As suggested my comment, I used:
twitteR::getCurRateLimitInfo(resources=resource_families)
obtaining, after having executed a Twitter search, the columns limit and remaining equal exept for /account/settings (from 15 to 14), /application/rate_limit_status (from 180 to 179). I also executed
twitteR::getCurRateLimitInfo(resources=resource_families)
before and after the Twitter search, and the only thing that changes is the reset (from 14:13:52 to 17:32:58). What does it mean? Does it increase every Twitter search? Does it decrease if I do not perform Twitter search?