Real time tweets/dents

I don't believe this is permitted by twitter. If you request updates too frequently it will block you. See: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting

Setting as incomplete for now until someone can think of a way to get real time updates from twitter/identica without those services blocking gwibber.

Well, you have 150 requests per hour, so you can make a request every 24 seconds, which is shorter than a minute. You can make an option to refresh every 30 seconds, and that would work fine.

@Arturo: it's not that simple. The message, reply, and private streams each use one request. That means Gwibber makes three requests on a Twitter account per refresh. If you did a refresh every single minute, you would exceed the rate limit.

Twitter is currently developing its own streaming APIs for real-time messaging, but it's not fully functional yet and it doesn't appear to support single-user use cases at this time. When Twitter's streaming API has matured to the point where it's practical to use in Gwibber, we will adopt it.

Identi.ca has an XMPP bridge that might possibly be able to facilitate real-time communication, but it will require further investigation. My plan is to use XMPP to determine when new messages are available and then force a refresh of the Identi.ca account. That's something that I won't be able to experiment with until after Lucid/Gwibber 2.30.

Twitter now has a streaming API: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api
Does this mean this feature will be implemented in Gwibber?

sounds like an interesting feature ;)

PCPro recently switched to Ubuntu for a day as an experiment and part of it's feedback on Ubuntu as a whole included details directly relevant to this bug:

"A few minutes with Gwibber also revealed that, when compared to something like Tweetdeck, it’s horrendously limited. Twitter can only update once every minute – an eternity for someone used to Tweetdeck’s real-time updating – and there’s no sign of multiple accounts, timed tweets or picture attachments, which are the kinds of features that I take for granted even in mobile apps these days."

From: Live blog: running PC Pro on Ubuntu | PC Pro blog http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2011/02/10/live-blog-running-pc-pro-on-ubuntu/#ixzz1EitmnuAl

I agree, when we foloow many users, 5 minutes between each update is far too long. Some clients like Hotot support real timeline update without problem with Twitter, it would be great to have the option to reduce this time.

This is now quite old, has their been any progress on this issue. I like the way Gwibber integrates with Ubuntu 11.10 but I need more frequent updates. 5 mins is killing me here... I have over 1350 followers and I need a twitter client that can keep up!

Any news on this? this is the biggest issue for me with gwibber...

Excitingly, Twitter now has a "User Streams" API. Some highlights:

 - User Streams provides real-time updates of all data needed to update a desktop application display
 - Rate limits and latency are practically eliminated
 - Desktop developers can stop managing rate limits and use this new data to create an entirely new user experience

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-api/user-streams