Show HN: Stream – Twitter Firehose for iPhone

https://itunes.apple.com/app/stream-for-twitter/id1053443074

by zntfdr • 10 years ago

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zntfdr2• 10 years ago

Hi, developer here!

I've always enjoyed Live Data Visualization [1].

Last year I bought my first macbook and started learning Swift and iOS App Development. After 3 months my app was ready and after 3 more months [2] the app is finally live on the App Store!

Stream for Twitter shows you new Tweets LIVE from all over the world: just input anything you're interested in and let the Stream flow.

Any feedback is welcome, thanks!

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/435g7b/i_l...

[2] https://medium.com/kimchi-media/my-first-app-journey-to-the-...

atom-x• 10 years ago

"Twitter Firehose for iPhone" is really a misnomer. There is no way that this is a true implementation of a realtime feed of the full Twitter data stream...

zntfdr2• 10 years ago

Hi atom-x, thanks for your interest!

It actually really is what the title says: you can have a look at the public Twitter Streaming API here [1].

Obviously you won't receive 100% of Twitter's Tweets (I dare any iPhone to receive every Tweet that contains the character 'o' in real time, for example) but as many Tweets as Twitter Servers decide to send you (depending on multiple factors, not publicly known, but I guess your connection speed is one).

Also you won't receive 100% of the Tweets because you have to pay Twitter for that service. Still, you'll get plenty of new Tweets live: just give it a try! It's quite cool to see it in action [2].

I'm happy to answer to any other of your concerns :)

[1] https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/overview

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=756d2fXJjas

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