I've successfully migrated one of my sites away from making search and mention rest calls, switched over to the streaming API and I'm loving it. I still need to move it to OAuth but now that I have that in test I'm reading up on the User and Site streams and I have a question.
It seems the User stream states that websites should not use it, and should use the Site stream instead, but I don't consume or care about my user's activity, my site is centered around the messages and interactions with the application user not the users themselves. Right now I track and evaluate followers and other bits using the rest calls but from what I see I could eliminate those rest calls and be off them (possibly) all together if I could use the User stream to accept information about new and broken friendships, favorites, dms, etc. Is it acceptable to use the User stream in that manor since I would only need it for the app user account not my site user's accounts? If so, I can just maintain the two streams (filtered streaming api and user stream) and eliminate or cut back my rest calls dramatically? Please let me know so I can plan accordingly. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
