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Paul

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Aug 11, 2009, 11:33:10 AM8/11/09
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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

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Aug 11, 2009, 11:59:47 AM8/11/09
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You probably want either the follow streaming api or if you have a couple more users the shadow


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>
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