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I was looking at Twitter Streaming API for getting a real-time feed.
But I dont want it stored on my server.
I just want it pulled from the server and the browser page will retrieve the data from my server’s twitter pull URL.
But I want to avoid polling my server every few mill-seconds.
Is there a way for my server script to keep pushing to my browser page ?
Just how live do you want it? There are ways to set up sockets, but they can be fairly complex, and still consume their fair share of bandwidth.
Is it acceptable to poll every 5, 10 seconds or so? Every few milliseconds would give you pretty darn “live” results, but I would not be upset as a user if it took a matter of seconds for something to appear on your website. That would be satisfactorily “live” for me.