A couple of weeks ago, popular micro-blogging service Twitter unveiled a beta "streaming API.
" Twitter's nature means they get hammered with polling requests so they've begun to experiment with the concept of streaming relevant data within a single HTTP request (in a Comet style). TweetStream (or GitHub repo ) is a new Ruby library by Michael Bleigh to handle interacting with Twitter streams from Ruby.
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