perl has the same limitation as php, I decided to use Java for
streaming API because of support for threads.

On Sep 30, 12:54 pm, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <zn...@borasky-
research.net> wrote:
> I've used the Perl AnyEvent::Twitter::Stream CPAN module and the Ruby  
> tweetstream gem. Both of them work just fine, although I think the  
> error handling in the Perl one may have a glitch. The Perl one is  
> lighter on both CPU and RAM use, but that's the nature of Perl vs.  
> Ruby, not something in the library codes themselves.
>
> I don't know if either of them has been updated to work with the  
> official User Streams endpoint yet - last time I looked at User  
> Streams, I used cURL from the command line.
>
> I'll probably get back to my User Streams project next week - I've  
> been pushing to get my appliances in shape for the SUSE Disters  
> contest entry deadline, which is tomorrow. ;-)
>
> And yes, I'd still like the option to get "spritzer" data in User  
> Streams without having to open another connection. But I'm probably  
> the only one. ;-)
> --
> M. Edward (Ed) Boraskyhttp://borasky-research.nethttp://twitter.com/znmeb
>
> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos
>
> Quoting Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com>:
>
>
>
> > While it's in Scala, not Java, I've heard good things about
> > @alejandrocrosa's Scala-TwitterStreamer :
> >http://github.com/acrosa/Scala-TwitterStreamer-- you should be able
> > to make use of it fairly easily in a Java environment.
>
> > We'd love to start collecting libraries built around the Streaming API.
>
> > Regardless of language, does anyone have libraries to share with everyone?
>
> > Taylor
>
> > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:25 AM, D. Smith <emai...@sharedlog.com> wrote:
> >> Hello there!
> >> I am pretty experienced with using PHP for Twitter, but now I want to
> >> use firehose and Java seems to be a much better fit because of
> >> 'Threads', so I can listen to Firehose the pass a job to a thread and
> >> return right away. PHP cannot do that, well, maybe to some crazy hacks
> >> that I am not too impressed with.
>
> >> Anyway, can someone recommend a good Java client that does that,
> >> ideally where I can just extend the class to write my own runnable
> >> classes.
>
> >> thanks a lot.
>
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