TwitTornado: Real-time Twitter using Tornado

This is great! For me, the best thing about it is that it actually allows me to tweet, a feature that has not worked for me on the Twitter website for several weeks. It is nice to be able to tweet from a browser again.

You should be able to get near-instant updates by using Twitter's streaming API: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#statu...

I just updated Tornado's httpclient to include a streaming_callback parameter which allows you to process data as it arrives (the param was somehow lost when httpclient was extracted from the FriendFeed code).

To use it, just do something like:

    http_client.fetch("http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json?follow=IDS...,
       cb, streaming_callback=self._handle_data, auth_username=...)

    def _handle_data(self, data):
        lines = (self.prev_linepart + data).split("\n")
        self.prev_linepart = lines[-1]
        lines = lines[:-1]
        if not lines:
            return

        for t in lines:
            try:
                tweet = tornado.escape.json_decode(t)

TIP: The official tornadoweb.com link is incorrect. I believe it should be http://www.tornadoweb.org/

Yeah, same here

Same same

Twitter seems to be pretty dodgy at the moment with the increased # of requests going to it. Its giving 503's. Refreshing a few times (brute force!) eventually gets you through.

It's working for me. I think Twitter was down for a few mins.

Tweets from other TwitTornado users are in real time (via Tornado). Tweets from non-TwitTornado users are polled on the interval.

This's exactly what I want. I also built a web based one with PHP but the performance is not good enough for real time.

Agreed, though that's only for certain browsers. Hopefully either those browsers fix it or some hack around it is established. What browser are you using?

Until getting any push/real-time features is going to come with that.