I have a hunch that this doesn't happen on sample, or, if it does so, it happens much more rarely.
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:26 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <zzn...@gmail.com>wrote: > I've got the "tweetstream" Ruby gem installed and I have a test driver > program. I can fire this up if it will give anything useful. Is this > happening just on "filter" or would it happen on "sample" too? > > > > On Feb 20, 9:02 pm, John Kalucki <j...@twitter.com> wrote: > > Arg. This is what I get for not checking the configuration each time. > Yes, > > it's currently set to send a newline every 30 seconds. > > > > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Marc Mims <marc.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > * John Kalucki <j...@twitter.com> [100220 20:24]: > > > > A 45 second period of inactivity is not unusual when following just > 100, > > > or > > > > even 100,000 users. The keep-alive newlines are only sent once every > 10 > > > > minutes. You should not reconnect so aggressively. > > > > > I can certainly set the time out to 10 minutes. I'm seeing newlines in > > > the stream every 30 seconds, except for rare occasions. I understood > > > those to be keep-alive packets. Apparently they are not and should not > > > be relied on? > > > > > @semifor >
