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copied!<p>This is my first post on stack overflow, but I have been using it for a long time. I would like to begin by saying thanks for the great community of developers who have helped me solve many problems as an undergrad student.</p> <p>Now, I have been working on an asp.net project in which I want to get a twitter stream on a specific query (e.g. Star Trek), and always show a scrolling list of the last 10 or so tweets about it. I am also using a sentiment scorer and I want to show the scoring result for each tweet, probably next to the tweet itself. </p> <p>So far, I have been able to create a simple console application in which I connect to the streaming api with the appropriate OAuth header and parse the json into a nice readable format. However, I now want to create an asp.net application like the one mentioned above. Many examples show how to do simple posts, or get the last 20 statuses from a user, and update the page with those by returning a view, but none of these examples show how to deal with twitter's continuous/infinite stream.</p> <p>My question is how do I relay the twitter stream in asp.net from a controller? Is it possible to return a view every time a new status comes into the stream? Or am I going in a completely wrong direction? I have also read about PushStreamContent - is it possible to relay the twitter stream using this method, and then possibly make an ajax call? I feel like that isn't the most simple solution. I also doubt I need to use threads.</p> <p>I am very new to asp.net mvc, and perhaps mvc is not the best way of solving my problem. However, I would like to use it if I can. Any tips, methods, or help steering me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. I hope this question is clear and specific enough.</p> <p>Here is some example code of my TwitterStream class:</p> <pre><code>public void StartStream() { try { HttpWebRequest request = MakeRequest(); //makes oauth request HttpWebResponse resp = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse(); sReader = new StreamReader( resp.GetResponseStream() ); while(true) { PopulateTweetJsonQueue(); //throw tweets into queue for processing } } catch(WebException e) { BackOffStrategy(e); } } </code></pre>

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