From John's announcement:
User streams permissions are not tuned for service-to-service
integration, rather they are tuned for end-user-display applications.
Needless to say, it is a big disappointment that the user streams API
is not available for services, but only for desktop apps.
I could
Dewalt,
We can't do everything at once. We can't release everything at once. We have
to pick the biggest return features, then let the features trickle down
where possible. Everything in user streams can be applied to service streams
in good time, but there are privacy issues and some tricky
John,
A question - what is the line between user/desktop apps and services?
A few random ideas - not sure if any of these exist or not:
1) An app which uses the new stream services to monitor every tweet by
folks you follow (plus everything else in the streams) and triggers
specific actions on
