title: indexing twitter data into elasticsearch: Limit of total fields [1000] in index has been exceeded
body: <p>I have a system that indexes the Twitter Stream into Elasticsearch. It has been running for a few weeks now. </p>
  
  <p>Lately an error has been showed up that says: <code>Limit of total fields [1000] in index [dev_tweets] has been exceeded</code>. </p>
  
  <p>I was wondering, if anyone has encountered the same problem? </p>
  
  <p>In addition if I run this curl: </p>
  
  <pre><code>$ curl -s -XGET http://localhost:9200/dev_tweets/_mapping?pretty | grep type | wc -l
       890
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>it should give me more or less the number of fields in the mapping. It is a lot of fields, but it isn't more than 1000 </p>