Still experiencing the problem of several hours delay until a new tweet of a user's friend appears in the "statuses/friends" response (strangely only for friends with protected statuses).
I have opened an issue on this problem including some example responses: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1121 I know you must be really busy, but could someone of the Twitter API team please give a short comment on this issue? Thanks, Frank