Hi everyone, I have a program calling the statuses/sample method of a garden hose of the Streaming API, and I am experiencing the following problem: the timestamps of the tweets that I downloaded constantly drift behind real-time, the time drift keeps increasing until it reaches around 25 minutes, and then I get a timeout from the request, sleep for 5 seconds and reset the connection. The time drift is also reset to 0 when the connection is reset.
One solution for this I have now is to proactively reset the connection more frequently, e.g., if I reconnect every 1 minute, the time drift I get will be at most 1 minute. But I am not sure whether this is allow by the API. So could anyone tell me if you have the same problem as mine or I am using the API in the wrong way. And is it OK to reset connection every minute? I am using Tweepy (http://github.com/joshthecoder/tweepy) as the library for accessing the Streaming API. Thanks a lot! -Larry
