Last month, Twitter had the Streaming API, a platform to allow third-party applications to access the user updates in real time. While customers like Tweetie, Seesmic or Tweetdeck and take advantage of it in their respective customers, the network now launched microblogging Site Streams, an alternative designed specifically for Web services. For
now in beta, the idea is that sites like Brizzly, Hootsuite or Web Seesmic, displayed instantly developments in direct messages, references, fans, bookmarks, tweets, retweets, profiles and lists. This first version does not include the full timeline, it will work with the usual mechanism.
What is changing with it? So far, our timeline is updated at time intervals, since the API imposes certain limits on the number of queries. With the new option, not just fade away these limitations, it is possible to implement development push, especially useful for mobile. This means that very soon we forget to press the Update button.
the moment, it is difficult to see it implemented in our tool of choice, since the test phase itself is designed to use limited. Not only to ensure that publications are not lost on the road, but also to prevent a collapse of service.
However, the wait will be worth it. I believe that in so far as their adoption becomes more widespread, increasingly look like an instant messenger, completely changing the way we interact with Twitter. Will they go away, for once, the fail whale and the high error rate?
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