> If you use friendfeed, you may know that if you post a new status
> message on twitter, it appears in your friendfeed account only in 2 or
> 3 seconds. I think there is a ping API protocol between twitter and
> friendfeed.
>
> How can we do that? For instance, I follow your account and you're
> updating your status very frequently (i.e. new status per minute) I
> can make a cronjob which gets your status message with RSS, but I
> think this is not a good way to that if you follow nearly a hundred of
> people. friendfeed does this for at least 30.000 twitter users and
> gets updates instantly.
Firehose (TBA), or Gnip, would be your best options. See
http://www.gnipcentral.com/
for more about Gnip. TTBOMK the "firehose" data connection is not yet
available.
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