Pinging back if there is an update by twitter? Is it possible?

[ahmet]

Hello everyone.

If you use friendfeed, you may know that if you post a new status
message on twitter, it appears in your friendfeed account only in 2 or
3 seconds. I think there is a ping API protocol between twitter and
friendfeed.

How can we do that? For instance, I follow your account and you're
updating your status very frequently (i.e. new status per minute) I
can make a cronjob which gets your status message with RSS, but I
think this is not a good way to that if you follow nearly a hundred of
people. friendfeed does this for at least 30.000 twitter users and
gets updates instantly.

Any ideas?

[Cameron Kaiser]

Firehose (TBA), or Gnip, would be your best options. See

http://www.gnipcentral.com/

for more about Gnip. TTBOMK the "firehose" data connection is not yet
available.

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[Damon Clinkscales]

If you know specifically who you are interested in, you can use Gnip.

http://gnipcentral.com/

-damon
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[munendra chevuru]

I have been searching for the same issue. Can you give me an idea how can i use gnip here.

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