No, the firehose solution will not address this scenario in its first release.
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:32, Brent Soderberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to be able to use an HTTP-push solution for retrieving any > replies made to a specific user. What are my options for that? I read > through the Gnip docs and it doesn't seem like there is an option for > getting a feed of all replies to a user. will the firehose solution > address this? > > On Nov 27, 12:34 pm, "Alex Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It's HTTP-push. You open a socket, we push data to you. The >> transport just happens to be HTTP. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 23:18, bham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > @fastest963: Well I was thinking of using Twitter for some nice simple >> > automated communication and for my application 10-15s is a little >> > slow. >> >> > @Alex: What do you mean works over HTTP? So I'd have to poll? How is >> > that a firehose solution? I'm genuinely confused. >> >> > On Nov 26, 11:02 pm, fastest963 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> As far as I know, the Firehose API would only be for retrieving data >> >> from Twitter and not sending (POST). >> >> >> @bham 10-15s isn't that bad? If it was over a minute then I would be >> >> concerned. As far as the latency, I can assume that it is just because >> >> of the caching that Twitter has put into place. >> >> -- >> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x