The best way to find out is to jump in and start experimenting! curl (1) works great to get started.
The output from the exposed Streaming API methods is identical. A stream of tweets, optionally delimited by length. As new statuses are posted that match your query's selectivity, they are written immediately on the TCP socket. You read them with a HTTP client that is capable of incremental reads. After that, you are on your own, route them within your application as you see fit. -John Kalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On May 26, 11:42 am, techtimes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > If I follow 150 users via the streaming api Url > http://stream.twitter.com/follow.format > > Hows does it works in practice: > > 1: is data pushed to the URL? > > 2: does the URL can ping my application when new updates are ready to > be collected? > > Thanks > Joao
