> Twitter's firehose is XMPP pubsub i believe, and is just a data pipe. > I don't think the type of data is particularly relevant. Stock data > is probably not much bigger than a tweet. > > Yes, if someone were to consume the Twitter firehose with a BOSH library and display the extra ATOM payload in realtime on a web page, that would be an example.
No doubt there will be some cool examples around shortly.
