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Using userstream to listen to events for each user doesn’t seem practicable for an application with thousands of users.

19th October 2013

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Sounds like you need Site streams: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/str...

“Site Streams allows services, such as web sites or mobile push services, to receive real-time updates for a large number of users.”