Add support for streaming APIs

[Mike Chelen]

Twitter messages can be downloaded streaming, instead of the need for periodic polling.

Several methods are included in their streaming API: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api

Some Python libraries support these methods including Tweepy: http://github.com/joshthecoder/tweepy

[Ryan Paul (segphault)]

Afaik, the streaming API only provides access to random or filtered samples of the public stream. It doesn't provide access to a user's message stream, for example. As such, it isn't really possible to use it for a Twitter client. It's really just for statistical analysis. If I'm mistaken or if the API is extended to support regular user streams, please reopen this bug report.

[Juan Sebastián Marulanda (juanchito2006)]

The API, as used in TweetDeck, allows users to view tweets from followed users to their friends, regardless if one is following that friend. Plus, it allows constant updating without reloading.

[Mike Chelen (mchelen)]

User Streams are documented here: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/user_streams

Even if there were no user streams, the streaming search api would still be useful for #hashtag and other searches.