Andy, What is your goal? Thanks, Doug
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Andrew Badera <and...@badera.us> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Stuart <stut...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> 2009/7/18 Andrew Badera <and...@badera.us>: >> > What's the best/lowest impact fashion of polling Twitter for status if >> > you're not already performing an operation? Does the help/test method >> work >> > (well) for this? Looking to poll once every five minutes or so, >> hopefully >> > without burning countable API hits. >> >> Lowest impact as far as API hits go is to use the search API, but >> you're then at the mercy of any delays or filtering between the main >> system and the search data. >> >> -Stuart >> >> -- >> http://stut.net/projects/twitter/ >> > > Delays, filtering, discrepancy ... yeah, not loving that. > > I suppose I could have a test user account on whose behalf I take a "no-op" > type action, so I'm not burning system resources nor actual user resources > ... > > --ab > > >
