Twitter and the Real-Time Web

TimesOpen 2.0: The Real-Time Web

Giving a @twit terapi talk at @times open’s “TimesO pen 2.0: The Real-Tim e Web” event. 2 Nov via Twitter for iPhone from The New York Times Building 620 Eight Avenue New York, New York View Tweets at this place

Twitter is the nature of news.

http://twitter.com/#!/highfours/status/1121908186

http://twitter.com/#!/jkrums/status/1121915133

http://twitter.com/#!/barackobama/status/992176676

“Rudimentary communication among individuals in real time allows many to move together as one” - @biz

One Word April 10, 2008 4:33:23 PM And it’s over April 11, 2008 1:27:26 PM

Haiti January 2010 Chile February 2010

http://twitter.com/#!/toptweets/status/12483108178

http://twitter.com/#!/Emergency_In_SF/status/29440739442

http://twitter.com/#!/i80chains/status/9726084734

http://twitter.com/#!/remedyoakland/status/29002198672

http://twitter.com/#!/AlbionsOven/status/10015063036

How many Tweets are there?

How many Tweets are there? 90M!

90M tweets 1000 tweets per day ≈ per second

http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/6506/Visualizing-How-a-Link-Spreads-Through-the-Twitterverse.aspx

How do they get out? 6B REST API 70,000 calls calls ≈ per second per day

REST API Handle authentication Manage rate limiting All to say, “No new tweets. Try later.”

What we want Deliver an immediate user experience Provide full fidelity data Create easy integrations Be efficient

REST API XML/JSON API over HTTP Poll-based system / pseudo real-time hosebird Streaming API Long poll HTTP Near real-time delivery of Tweets

Connecting to the stream curl -u UUU:PPP http://stream.twitter.com/1/ statuses/filter.json?track=ivoted Hold the socket open Get JSON objects, one per line Get them in real-time

Latency 200ms 100ms 0ms

#ivoted

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Twitter and the Real-Time Web

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