Fast Twitter notifications

[granitas137]

Hi, what is the fastest way to get twitter notifications? I'm following some stock market tweets and i need to get that information really fast. "Twitter" app sometimes takes 2 minutes to pop notification up, that's too slow. Any tips how to speed that up? Alternative apps? Thanks.

 

[Raz0rEdge]

You are relying on the wrong platform for information that needs to be had really fast. Information from the Twitter servers will come out to apps usually in two ways, either the apps are routinely pull the data from the servers or the servers will proactively push the data to the apps. The pull method is usually done on a interval of some minutes to avoid clogging up the Twitter servers. The push method might get you the data faster, but only a few apps use that method.

You can write your app to the twitter API that will get the data faster, but you will be rate limited to avoid beating up on the server.

If you are playing with the stock market, you should employ other platforms meant for it.

 

[granitas137]

You are relying on the wrong platform for information that needs to be had really fast. Information from the Twitter servers will come out to apps usually in two ways, either the apps are routinely pull the data from the servers or the servers will proactively push the data to the apps. The pull method is usually done on a interval of some minutes to avoid clogging up the Twitter servers. The push method might get you the data faster, but only a few apps use that method.

You can write your app to the twitter API that will get the data faster, but you will be rate limited to avoid beating up on the server.

If you are playing with the stock market, you should employ other platforms meant for it.

There is no need to constantly beating up on the server nowadays. Websocket API allows you to lissen for event changes. Isn't twitter using websocket or something similar? The thing is, that messages in "twitter" app do appear almost instantly (around 2 seconds), just notifications are delayed for some reason (up to 2 minutes).

That's sad: https://www.theverge.com/2015/12/30/10691290/twitter-mac-outsourced

 

[arturjan22]

Hi, what is the fastest way to get twitter notifications? I'm following some stock market tweets and i need to get that information really fast. "Twitter" app sometimes takes 2 minutes to pop notification up, that's too slow. Any tips how to speed that up? Alternative apps? Thanks.

Hey i know its an old post. Decided to give it a chance. Want to find out, if you have found any alternative way to get Twitter notifications Faster than they delivered to your cell. I am currently in the same type of situation.

Hope to hear back, loosing my head on this.

Thaks