You probably want either the follow streaming api or if you have a couple more users the shadow http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#follow
<http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#follow>shadow See birddog above. Allows following up to 50,000 users. > URL: http://stream.twitter.com/shadow.format Formats: xml, json Method(s): POST Returns: stream of status elements<http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation#Statuselement> follow See birddog above. Allows following up to 200 users. Publicly available. URL: http://stream.twitter.com/follow.format Formats: xml, json Method(s): POST Returns: stream of status elements<http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation#Statuselement> 2009/8/11 Paul <arckinteract...@gmail.com> > > I'm developing a Twitter Directory that is saving tweets locally via a > cron that's making authenticated calls to friends_timeline every 10 > minutes. Ideally, I'd like to update the directory more frequently. > Is there a way to get a firehose feed for a single account, or some > other way to approach this? > > Thanks! > Paul >
