We're not quite ready to move Site Streams out of beta. We have a few
features to add, and we want to expand capacity somewhat to give a quicker,
more consistent, login experience. We want to make as many risky changes as
possible under beta, and then move much more carefully in full production.
Other than a lower threshold for restarting on our end, however, Site
Streams is pretty close to production-ready. Once we're in production, we'll
be somwhat more hesitant to do restarts. As it stands, we'll restart beta
whenever we need to gather some important information. Historically tends to
be once a week or so, with occasional bursts.
I'd launch a production product on Site Streams, but I'd keep a very close
eye on things, and be prepared to make changes very quickly. We won't offer
long transition periods for required changes, and we assume that
beta clients can be pretty nimble on changing your end. Also, keep your REST
API fallback code well tested for the time being...
-John Kalucki
http://twitter.com/jkalucki
Twitter, Inc.
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:32 PM, ||M|| wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Maybe this question is asked before but I was unable to find it in the
> post history.
>
> At the moment we are developing an application that needs to get the
> timelines of many users in real time. The are many possibilities to
> create this solution but I think twitters site stream API looks like
> the perfect solution for our problem. We can setup one or maybe a few
> connections that enables us to get this information much easier than
> when using the user stream API.
>
> I played around with it for the last couple of weeks and I very
> enthusiastic about it to use in our current project. I wondering if it
> is advisable to use twitters site stream API for production
> applications because this is in BETA at this moment.
>
> Is there some kind of road map available for the site stream API? It
> will take at least a couple of months before we will release the first
> version of the application so the BETA it's not a problem at this
> moment but if there's no indication of when the BETA period will end
> and the site streams will go into production is it than available to
> use it our to still use the user stream as alternative.
>
> I hope someone can help me with this?
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Melvin
>
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