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Using userstream to listen to events for each user doesn’t seem practicable for an application with thousands of users.

19th October 2013

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Sounds like you need Site streams: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/str...

“Site Streams allows services, such as web sites or mobile push services, to receive real-time updates for a large number of users.”

This is Using userstream to listen to events for each user doesn’t seem practicable for an application with thousands of users. by Simon Willison, posted on 19th October 2013.

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