Hi Mark, I'm glad to hear you've made so much progress with the authenticated-user-centric streaming APIs. You've got all the right understandings here -- we don't yet offer a way for lists to be streamed like other pieces of data and you have to resort to REST polling for list "timelines." You theoretically could "cobble them together" by using an additional filter/track streaming connection following the user_ids belonging to the lists of concern (you can "follow" 5000 users at a time this way) but this method wouldn't scale across a variable user base well.
@episod <http://twitter.com/episod> - Taylor Singletary On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Mark Krieger <[email protected]> wrote: > While waiting for Beta Site Streams access, I have been testing with > User Streams, and reading docs. I have a lot done, it is a neat way to > do things. I've easily implemented mentions, dms, hometimelines, and > they're working in my product using User Streams as the testbed. Doing > Site Streams will be more difficult, but the basics are there for me. > > I have a question about lists though: I know I can get list changes (I > can see them in the stream), but more important to me in principle is > getting the List's timeline, since some people use lists extensively > and want to see their list timelines and I do not want to waste REST > API calls. But it seems to me that not only do List timelines not come > down the wire for streams, but it also looks like I cannot 'cobble > them' together; the way I might cobble them together for timeline for > my followings. That's because people in the List who I follow are not > necessarily people who are in my 'regular' followings. Is this > correct? Did I miss something? It is probably not horrible, but I just > want to make sure I am understanding this correctly. > > Mark > > -- > 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 > -- 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
