We're going to be offering exactly that (a long-polling firehose) to select partners to build on. Please see our FAQ for more information.
Providing a realtime solution for the rest of the API is a lot more challenging than just hooking up XMPP. If the technology was there, we'd do it. But we've investigated and benchmarked, and it isn't. We also want to provide something with a lower barrier to entry when we're ready to go down that road. We understand that power users are very excited about "realtime", but the majority of users and developers are still getting up to speed with Twitter's basic offerings. Accordingly, that's where our energies are at right now. On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 16:08, Sam Sethi <samkse...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Please can we get a Twitter xmpp feed. If Twitter are not going to offer > this can they allow GNIP to go live. GNIP say Twitter are not allowing them > to offer the firehose via xmpp to developers. Why? Pull based polling is > last year. Maybe at the least Twitter could offer a Long polling option like > friendfeed to give a psuedo realtime feed > > Thanks in advance > > Sam > > W: www.twitblogs.com > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 12 Mar 2009, at 21:21, Alex Payne <a...@twitter.com> wrote: > >> >> POST requests are unlimited. >> >> We used to support XMPP as an experimental feature, but we don't >> currently. >> >> Delivering push features at our scale is a challenge. We're currently >> making our traditional REST request/response APIs the best they can >> be. In the future, maybe we'll tackle push as well. In the medium >> term, select partners will be able to have tweets pushed to them over >> HTTP via our "firehose" mechanism. >> >> As Andrew suggested, there's been quite a lot of discussion on these >> topics in this group and elsewhere on the web. >> >> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 13:55, Adrian <spiritpo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi there, I was wondering if it's possible to push data, rather than >>> have the content pulled with JSON or XML fetches. You can poll after >>> set amounts of time, but that only present the illusion of Push, and >>> uses up bandwith. >>> >>> Also, is the API limit applied to POST requests? >>> >>> Lastly, has Twitter thought about implementing XMPP. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. >> http://twitter.com/al3x > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
