Ed, On Mar 1, 5:23 pm, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <zzn...@gmail.com> wrote: > In light of today's announcement, I'm not sure what the benefits of a > "middleman" would be. > > http://blog.twitter.com/2010/03/enabling-rush-of-innovation.html > > Can you clarify > > a. How much it would cost me to get Twitter data from you via > PubSubHubbub vs. getting the feeds directly from Twitter? Free, obviously... as with the use of any hub we host!
> b. What benefits there are to acquiring Twitter data via PubSubHubbub > over direct access? Much simpler to deal with than a specific streaming Twitter API, specifically if your app has already implemented the protocol for Identica, Buzz, Tumblr, sixapart, posterous, google reader... it's all about "standards". > > On Mar 1, 3:08 pm, Julien <julien.genest...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Ola! > > > I know this s some kind of recurring topic for this mailing list. I > > know all the heat around it, but I think that Twitter's new strategy > > concerning their firehose is a good occasion to push them to implement > > the PubSubHubbub protocol. > > > Superfeedr makes RSS feeds realtime. We host hubs for several big > > publishers, including Tumblr, Posterous, HuffingtonPost, Gawker and > > several others. > > > We want to make one for Twitter. Help us assessing the need and > > convince Twitter they need one (hosted by us or even them, if they'd > > rather go down that route) : > > >http://bit.ly/hub4twitter > > > Any comment/suggestion is more than welcome.
