应用程序管理多个Twitter帐户

Question

I need some insights on making an application to manage multiple twitter accounts from a single web app. I have stored oauth token and secrets for these apps on a database and would like to have realtime displays of these account on different panes. Basically, I don't need help with code, I am just looking for ideas how I can proceed.

Basically, I like to create application like the hootsuite. I would like to know how it manage to realtime update twitter timelines. The thing I can imagine is having a relay script that will make api requests to the twitter on the backend and send back json replies and then I update my views. But I would have to hit the api in intervals. I have learned about siteStream api for twitter, but I am not sure it is out of beta.

So basically, any suggestions how I can implement an application that manages around 20-30 twitter applications with realtime updates of feeds, would be best.

So far I have made an application that would hit twitter api to fetch new tweets. But for this I think I will soon run out of rate limits. Is there any positive approach in this regard?

I apologise if this question sounds vague, but I am looking for insights and not any coding help but architecture suggestion would be great.

Answer 1

What you describe looks like a good use case for the user streams API .

It is stable, and using it will be more convenient to you rather than polling the REST API at regular interval. This way, you should not run into problems with rate limits.