Check out this blog post for a fairly recent survey of how to get data from Twitter: http://dev.twitter.com/2008/10/we-got-data.html
Our "firehose" solution is in final load testing and should be entering testing with partners within days. On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 19:40, Xianhang Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm having a really hard time finding timely information about the > current state of a twitter push API. It seems extraordinarily > inefficient for me to be polling the server constantly to detect > updates and I would love to hear that there is a simpler, easy to use > alternative. Is there any information on how to build response driven > twitter application, preferably in Rails? > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
