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Twitter Node.js Socket.IO Example

Quick experiment of direct streaming from twitter to the browser, with no polling, using Node.js and Socket.IO.
(Based on Andre Goncalves’ (@andregoncalves) websocket example, which is in turn based on to Ruben Fonseca’s version with Ruby and AMQP).

Requirements:

Node.js.

How To:

Download and install node.js (instructions here).
Download the project from github.
Start the server: node server.js <twitter_username> <twitter_password> <optional_keyword>.
Open http://localhost:8080.

Libraries used:

Eric Dennis (Blog, @ericdennis)