Streaming apis for follows/following?

[Steve Farrell]

Hey,

Have you guys given any thought to a streaming api for follows/
following? So, specifically, you'd name a set of people (or get a
firehose), and you'd get pushed a notification in real time every time
a one of those users follows / is followed? Of course, one could
generalize such a feature to include any events, including list
events, attribute changes (updating user description text), etc.

[John Kalucki]

We've thought about it, scoped it, and been careful to build various
components in such a way to eventually trivially support streaming
social graph changes over the Streaming API. This data would probably
lead to very interesting things, and we're excited about the
possibilities. But, social graph changes are not the highest priority
item at the moment, other items must come first.

-John Kalucki
http://twitter.com/jkalucki
Services, Twitter Inc.