There is only one streaming API that is live currently. The user streaming is for a completely different usage than the regular streaming API. User streaming allows your application to be notified on events specific to a particular user such as direct messages, follows/unfollows, list creation, etc. That is what the "chirpstream" is all about. You can't yet build apps on it, it will be released sometime after July.
Earlybird is the name of a small demo app someone wrote to demonstrate user streaming at the Chirp hack day (day two of the conference). Jonathon Hill @compwright On May 30, 3:10 pm, bear <bea...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm getting some code ready for delivery to a customer and I need to > settle on the best way to get twitter data into their app. > > I've been using the "official" Stream API up till now but that has all > kinds of problems for me because it's basically the search results > delivered as a stream, so I have to do all kinds of post processing on > it to remove the extra stuff. > > During the Chirp conference I saw that there was a chirpstream preview > of a user's data - has that been released to us non-sanfran devs yet? > or is it still special? > > I'm also seeing in the dev group postings things like betastream, > earlybird, and some others - is there any chance of even me being able > to figure out which stream api will eventually get used at all? > > So yea, looking to get some answers on which stream api to use or if > good old polling is still the best way to get clean, accurate user > data?
