Hacker News Reader

Bummer that it's all webhooks. They're pretty fragile. It'd be much nicer if Twitter had some kind of streaming API that you could connect to with a sequence number and get any messages that you might have missed, or at least any that they still have.

Basically, Kafka over Websockets would be ideal.

View on HN

In the early stages where we are now, we're finding the new architecture pretty robust. There's an acknowledgement back on our side with webhooks responses, so we can build features that ensure your apps never miss an activity.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com