Monday, April 4, 2011

[twitter-dev] Site Streams and lists

While waiting for Beta Site Streams access, I have been testing with
User Streams, and reading docs. I have a lot done, it is a neat way to
do things. I've easily implemented mentions, dms, hometimelines, and
they're working in my product using User Streams as the testbed. Doing
Site Streams will be more difficult, but the basics are there for me.

I have a question about lists though: I know I can get list changes (I
can see them in the stream), but more important to me in principle is
getting the List's timeline, since some people use lists extensively
and want to see their list timelines and I do not want to waste REST
API calls. But it seems to me that not only do List timelines not come
down the wire for streams, but it also looks like I cannot 'cobble
them' together; the way I might cobble them together for timeline for
my followings. That's because people in the List who I follow are not
necessarily people who are in my 'regular' followings. Is this
correct? Did I miss something? It is probably not horrible, but I just
want to make sure I am understanding this correctly.

Mark

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