Re: [twitter-dev] user stream best practices

2010-12-18 Thread John Kalucki
Yes, our model does externalize some development and hosting costs onto clients. But, we tend to only externalize cost when issues would be far cheaper, in aggregate, to solve on the client, or would be intractable to solve on our end and might otherwise prevent the launch of the feature. We try

Re: [twitter-dev] user stream best practices

2010-12-18 Thread Isaiah Carew
I understand. There's lots of sausage making going on behind the scenes. You make it the best you can. Often for reasons that I cannot hope to understand. ;-) Let me stop being metaphysical and boil this down to a simple bug report: There is no documentation of how to get from the schema

Re: [twitter-dev] user stream best practices

2010-12-14 Thread Isaiah Carew
In other words, if I want to disambiguate the stream, I have to filter it myself. Well, humph… Not impossible, just a pain in the butt. From an information organization standpoint, it seems odd: The REST API is broken out into separate calls. The stream has everything glommed together. It

Re: [twitter-dev] user stream best practices

2010-12-13 Thread John Kalucki
Roughly: If the tweet is from a following, place it in the home timeline. If the tweet refers to the user (to or from), or contains the @screenname place it in mentions If it's a message - messages. What remains is probably a track term. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc.

[twitter-dev] user stream best practices

2010-12-10 Thread isaiah
Hi, I'm implementing user streams in my client and looking for some advice on best practices. My client supports viewing multiple timelines at the same time, so it's quite possible to, for example: view a saved search, the user's own home timeline, and another user's recent tweets. Of course,