Twitter API increase rate limit

Question

I need Twitter data for my master thesis. I want to apply for the academic access, however I read that there is a rate limit of 300 requests/15 minutes. How can I understand that, I would need almost a year to pull 10M tweets? Is there a way to pull more tweets in these 15 minutes?

Background: I want to get all tweets referring to specific companies, so I want to search for cashtags.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

It would only take almost a year if each request was a single Tweet. I haven't looked at the API, but they surely have endpoints that allow you to get lists of tweets matching your criteria in a single request. You should be fine with that rate limit for your research.