Firehose feed.

[Paul]

I'm developing a Twitter Directory that is saving tweets locally via a
cron that's making authenticated calls to friends_timeline every 10
minutes. Ideally, I'd like to update the directory more frequently.
Is there a way to get a firehose feed for a single account, or some
other way to approach this?

Thanks!
Paul

[Paul Kinlan]

You probably want either the follow streaming api or if you have a couple more users the shadow

http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#follow

shadow

See birddog above. Allows following up to 50,000 users.

 

URL: http://stream.twitter.com/shadow.format 

Formats: xml, json

Method(s): POST

Returns: stream of status elements

 

follow

See birddog above. Allows following up to 200 users. Publicly available.

 

URL: http://stream.twitter.com/follow.format 

Formats: xml, json

Method(s): POST

Returns: stream of status elements

2009/8/11 Paul <arckint...@gmail.com>