Hi John, I appreciate the offer, and I'm excited about user steams. I attended your talk about it at chirp.
But I'm afraid I don't have the resources to invest in experimental development. When everything's settled and user-streams are a reality I'll join the crowd. isaiah http://twitter.com/isaiah On Jun 29, 2010, at 7:24 PM, John Kalucki wrote: > Isaiah, > > I'm assuming your client is Kiwi, a desktop client. Are you interested in > participating in the User Streams beta test for desktop clients? User Streams > are not subject to the same rate limits that the rest of the API must adhere > to. > > We're currently lining up clients to start the beta test in the next few > weeks. Basically, you'll need to implement oAuth and follow the guidelines > (http://apiwiki.twitter.com/User-Stream-Implementation-Suggestions) to get > ready for a limited private test for a few hundred users. For capacity > planning purposes, we'll also need to understand how many users to expect > during a public beta and how many installed copies you have. > > Let me know if you'd like to participate. > > -John Kalucki > http://twitter.com/jkalucki > Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:30 PM, isaiah <isa...@mac.com> wrote: > > Given that Raffi told us that that Rate Limits would be going to 10X > by chirp -- it almost sounds like a joke now, but he definitely seemed > serious -- we designed features that were already constrained at 350 > calls/hr. > > Now at these dramatically lower limits, even with dynamic adjustments, > many features are failing regularly and our customers are screaming. > > Clearly cutting features from our app is pretty much the only way > forward. However we were already having trouble trying to maintain > some semblance of feature parity with Twitter.com -- which is what our > users are demanding. > > With the failures and changes combined our users are going to be > marching with pitchforks very and torches looking for heads to chop > very soon. > > I'm not asking for any specific action here. Merely passing along the > anger that we see just in case you weren't aware of it. > > Isaiah > >
