twitter bot with api

Question

im writing a bot that replies to a user message instantly. from what i've read their api only allows checking updates every minute or so.

it's there a push feature or a 3rd party service that pushes the new message to my server right away?

i've seen bots that can do this.

Answer 1

Twitter allows white listing of apps. Then you are only limited to something like 20 or 200 thousand requests an hour. You might want to contact them.

Answer 2

I wrote a simple twitter bot some time back. please check this. You can start with the code.

Answer 3

I've seen this done with GRAILS

http://www.nickjag.com