July 2009
4 posts
WatchI turned off twitter importing a few weeks ago while testing something and forgot to turn it back on. So when I did finally get around to importing all the tweets, I decided to watch them zoom by in the realtime feed.
It’ll probably take a few hours to catch up, so if you’re interested, go ahead and watch it yourself.
Realtime is the best time
For one reason or another, I’ve been super interested in realtime on the web. I looked into how it worked and put up a quick version of a realtime feed for enjoysthin.gs. It worked by polling the server every few seconds and grabbing the latest content.
That sucked.
It was slow and hard on the server and utterly unscalable. It required a lot of hits to the server and a ton of extra...
