diff --git a/controllers/stream.js b/controllers/stream.js
index 95283af..dc38742 100644
--- a/controllers/stream.js
+++ b/controllers/stream.js
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ router.get("/poll/:frequency/:delay", function (req, res) {
                 }
             })
 
-        }, req.params.delay);
+        }, req.params.delay * i);
     }
     res.send('polling Tweets from PubSub');
 });
diff --git a/services/gcp-infra.js b/services/gcp-infra.js
index 41587a5..4c9ba7a 100644
--- a/services/gcp-infra.js
+++ b/services/gcp-infra.js
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ const fs = require('fs');
 
 const pubSubClient = new PubSub();
 const subClient = new v1.SubscriberClient();
-var counter;
+var counter = 0;
 
 async function synchronousPull(projectId, subscriptionName, maxMessagesToPull) {
     const formattedSubscription = subClient.subscriptionPath(