Seems like this is the place to go for understanding this kind of situation handling
http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api_concepts Thanks anyways, --Deepak -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk