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Twitter Stream API

Twitter has a stream API which allows a live view of the users twitter stream. Documentation is here http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api. TweetDeck (and ChromeDeck), and Seesmic both support it, and it's a great feature, would be awesome to have it in hootsuite too.

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    Jonathan AnglissJonathan Angliss shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Leonardo CamargoLeonardo Camargo shared a merged idea: Real time refresh. Waiting for the 2-minute-refresh is hell.  ·   · 
    SueSue shared a merged idea: Update streams "as they come in" - so I'm getting a constant update. When a topic is hot, every 2 minutes isn't fast enough!  ·   · 
    Deepa Deepa shared a merged idea: Appearance of Tweets should be streamlined.  ·   · 
    TalTal shared a merged idea: use streaming TL updates, as two minute updates are way too slow.  ·   · 
    Anonymous shared a merged idea: Suggestion, I got a suggestion for ya...fastest auto refresh is two damn minutes....give me a break. I want my realtime refresh back ...  ·   · 
    Diet JusticeDiet Justice shared a merged idea: Refresh v Live  ·   · 
    Veronica AarstadVeronica Aarstad shared a merged idea: Make an option for auto-refresh in real time  ·   · 
    Matthew S HorbundMatthew S Horbund shared a merged idea: reduce refresh delay  ·   · 

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      • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Live-updates is an amazing features and I hope we can get something like this on Hootsuite!

      • Angel RodriquezAngel Rodriquez commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        I think this is really the only thing I don't like about HootSuite right now. I have used Tweetdeck, forever, but with recent poor versions and the older version crashing too much I have reluctantly made the switch to HootSuite. I say reluctantly because there still is no support for live streaming. I see that this post was made LONG LONG ago so it's sad to see that no progress has been made on this issue.

      • FlufFluf commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Using the live stream API is of benefit to those that actually read the TL. Hootsuite and Twitter's main direction now is as a broadcast / advertising medium. They seem to forget that depends on people having good tools to read the TL. Same as others here, I'm not touching Hootsuite till it gets twitter streaming.

      • Braden FrameBraden Frame commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Seriously! Let's make this happen...then I'll adopt hoot suite...otherwise...not so much...

      • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Still zero update to this after so long? User stream api is there to be used...

      • AnonymousAnonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Quite surprised that in 2012 HootSuite still has no Twitter streaming support. This is for me a reason not to use it anymore. It's really hard to see that all other clients support streaming and in HootSuite you have to wait until it refreshes the list of the tweets.

      • Alex MayAlex May commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Use of the Twitter Stream API would sort this out. There is already a suggestion for that.

      • AnonymousAnonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        There honestly shouldn't be much to look into...it's already available to use. The User Stream API does just that...

      • AlejandroAlejandro commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        having to wait for 2 minutes is really slow. and it doesn't help having to be clickinc the refresh button every 5 seconds. It could help a lot if you could enable real time streaming like tweetdeck or other dashboards.

      • objectxplosiveobjectxplosive commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        To mentions and some high update rate TL, every 2 minutes refresh is too slow now, I think.

      • AlexAlex commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        I second that, every client has this feature but hootsuite

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