Oh that'd be perfect for what I'm working on! I noticed a latency of about 10-15s between making an tweet and seeing the same in Search API results.
Would this firehose solution work any faster? Will it send notifications over XMPP? Gnip is nice but the latency kills me. On Nov 19, 1:11 am, "Alex Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check out this blog post for a fairly recent survey of how to get data > from Twitter:http://dev.twitter.com/2008/10/we-got-data.html > > Our "firehose" solution is in final load testing and should be > entering testing with partners within days. > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 19:40, Xianhang Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm having a really hard time finding timely information about the > > current state of a twitter push API. It seems extraordinarily > > inefficient for me to be polling the server constantly to detect > > updates and I would love to hear that there is a simpler, easy to use > > alternative. Is there any information on how to build response driven > > twitter application, preferably in Rails? > > -- > Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
