Dale, Thanks for the response. What I was not sure about was the comment on only public users working with Gnip.
I'm real curious to know if the Facebook application by Twitter use Gnip. David On Feb 10, 9:04 am, Dale Merrick <[email protected]> wrote: > Check out Gnip athttp://www.gnip.com > > Using them you should get a large volume of tweets in an event driven > manner as Alex indicated. That would give you plenty of speed. > > On Feb 9, 2009, at 11:08 PM, DATX wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > I realize that there are already discussions on pushing tweets to 3rd > > party apps. However, I'm still a little confused. > > > I'm interested in knowing if its possible to design something very > > similar to the Twitter's Facebook Application (http:// > >www.facebook.com/ > > applications/#/apps/application.php?id=2231777543&b=&ref=pd_r). > > > I have read that: > > > Alex Payne writes on 9/18/2008: > > >> If you want to talk directly to the Twitter API, polling is currently > >> the supported way. You can poll us often - we've optimized for that. > > >> If you won't be able to sleep at night unless you have an event-based > >> system, check out what Gnip currently offers. You can get > >> notifications from them when public Twitter users send updates. > > > The Facebook application does not appear to poll (its very fast) and > > it seems to do more than just public Twitter users. Does it use some > > home cook'n (internal Twitter APIs)? Can i find more information on > > the Facebook app? Is the answer XMPP? Any example code would be very > > helpful. > > > Thank you in advance for the help. > >
