On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:08 AM, mage26 <mag...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am currently integrating Twitter with a small social network. I am > using PHP and the twitteroauth library. The idea is that a user can > sync their account to their Twitter. So when they post on their wall, > it will send a tweet and it will post their tweets onto their wall. > Currently, I am gathering user tweets via a PHP script run by cron > that runs like this: > > 1. go through every user that has connected to their twitter account > 2. pull the last 20 tweets for each user. > 3. See if any of these tweets are new. If so, deposit into database. >
You could easily replace this by using the streaming API. No rate limiting no cron job, just works. --d -- 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
