On Feb 19, 7:36 am, rob <robert.bag...@gmail.com> wrote: > Has anyone else ran into an issue where over time the Streaming API > just stops sending results? > > We are using a Ruby library to connect (twitter-stream) which uses > EventMachine to open a persistent connection to the API (we are > tracking and following). > > The library properly handles reconnection (from dropped connections) > and the various error conditions. > > All works well for a period of time (8+ hours in some cases, sometimes > a full day) after that the connection does no get dropped but no data > gets sent. (At least that's what is seems as EventMachine feels its > still connected) > > If we just drop the connection and reconnect all is well and the data > starts to flow again. (Which we could do but that seems like a hack) > > Anyone else have this issue or should I dive into the EventMachine > code and see if there is an issue in there? > > Thanks in advance, > > Rob
I haven't seen anything like this, but I've only used "tweetstream", not "twitter-stream". I had a connection running last week for about 12 hours with no problems. It was on the "filter" stream doing a "track" for the keyword "haiti".
