Check out Gnip at http://www.gnip.com
Using them you should get a large volume of tweets in an event driven
manner as Alex indicated. That would give you plenty of speed.
On Feb 9, 2009, at 11:08 PM, DATX wrote:
Hello,
I realize that there are already discussions on pushing tweets to 3rd
party apps. However, I'm still a little confused.
I'm interested in knowing if its possible to design something very
similar to the Twitter's Facebook Application (http://
www.facebook.com/
applications/#/apps/application.php?id=2231777543&b=&ref=pd_r).
I have read that:
Alex Payne writes on 9/18/2008:
If you want to talk directly to the Twitter API, polling is currently
the supported way. You can poll us often - we've optimized for that.
If you won't be able to sleep at night unless you have an event-based
system, check out what Gnip currently offers. You can get
notifications from them when public Twitter users send updates.
The Facebook application does not appear to poll (its very fast) and
it seems to do more than just public Twitter users. Does it use some
home cook'n (internal Twitter APIs)? Can i find more information on
the Facebook app? Is the answer XMPP? Any example code would be very
helpful.
Thank you in advance for the help.
