[twitter-dev] Re: streaming API for DM for multiple users ?

2009-07-28 Thread Andres B
I'd support the creation of such a method. My latest focus is receiving orders/commands through DM and having a hose would give us a much snappier response than polling every 30 secs. On Jul 27, 8:55 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: There is currently no Streaming API to receive DMs

[twitter-dev] Re: streaming API for DM for multiple users ?

2009-07-28 Thread Ben Hall
Random idea, but wouldn't a streaming API for DMs allow IM style clients to be implemented on top of the twitter platform? I know I use DMs instead of MSN now, the delay is a bit of a pain but being able to move the conversation from public to private is great, plus sometimes you do want delayed

[twitter-dev] Re: streaming API for DM for multiple users ?

2009-07-28 Thread Fabien Penso
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Doug Williamsd...@twitter.com wrote: There is currently no Streaming API to receive DMs for a given user. If you have a great use case for this please share it here. We like to have justification for new streaming methods. If you have ideas to help augment a

[twitter-dev] Re: streaming API for DM for multiple users ?

2009-07-28 Thread Fabien Penso
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Ben Hallben200...@googlemail.com wrote: Random idea, but wouldn't a streaming API for DMs allow IM style clients to be implemented on top of the twitter platform? It would.

[twitter-dev] Re: streaming API for DM for multiple users ?

2009-07-27 Thread Doug Williams
There is currently no Streaming API to receive DMs for a given user. If you have a great use case for this please share it here. We like to have justification for new streaming methods. If you have ideas to help augment a business case for engineering resources, we would love to know about them.