Twitter Node.js WebSocket Example

Quick experiment of direct streaming from twitter to the browser, with no polling, using Node.js.
Follow up to http://github.com/andregoncalves/twitter-nodejs-websocket, using Socket.io and twitter-node

Blog post by andre – here. ) ( This explains the basics of what I have tried to do.)

Requirements:

• Node.js.
• HTML5 WebSocket capable browser.

How To:

• Download and install node.js (instructions here).
• Download the project from github.
• Download and install npm and install “twitter-node” and “socket.io”
• Start the server: node server.js <twitter_username> <twitter_password> <optional_keyword>.
• Open index.html with a WebSocket compatible browser (Chrome or Webkit nightly).