@Will Yeah, that's what we're currently using, and it works well enough, but I would really love an unthrottled track because it includes the user profile information inline. That would be sooo nice.
On Aug 20, 11:54 am, Wil Kern <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you thought about just using the filter:links in your search query? > Will > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Mark Nutter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm writing an application that needs a realtime stream of the links > > being posted on Twitter. I've been using the search api with a search > > for the term 'http' but I stumbled across the track firehose method > > which appears to offer the same functionality but with the added bonus > > of including the user profile information inline. Does track provide > > the same real-time stream that the search api does? Would I be > > missing links at all by using track? If not, I'll switch over to that > > immediately. This will greatly reduce the number of API calls I need > > to make to update user information. Thanks! > > -- > Will Kernwww.tweetmart.com > (c) 703-431-9393
