Yeah, I was just wondering though if all the overhead of setting up
and tearing down connections for each request makes sense when a
client might need to download hundreds of statuses (to be stored in
local cache) the first time someone uses it.

On Apr 9, 3:34 pm, Chad Etzel <jazzyc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would guess that when you have millions of connection requests a day
> coming into a few different servers, you don't want the connection to
> stay open for any longer than it needs to be.  Get in, serve data, get
> out.
> -Chad
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:02 PM, orange80 <jpsw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Any reason why not?  Just curious.  Nice API by the way :)
>
> > Thanks,
> > Jamie
>
> > On Apr 9, 12:47 am, John Adams <j...@twitter.com> wrote:
> >> On Apr 8, 2009, at 10:33 PM, orange80 wrote:
>
> >> > Yeah, I started checking the headers and realized that.  It doesn't
> >> > seem like there's any hard limit on simultaneous connections though so
> >> > that helps quite a bit.
>
> >> Our web servers do not support Keep-Alive.
>
> >> -j
>
> >> ---
> >> John Adams
> >> Twitter Operations
> >> j...@twitter.comhttp://twitter.com/netik

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