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Secrets of Twitter and Foursqaure Ajax-like.

Hey folks,

Does anyone know how to make things like these: Im talking about theses "hidden ajax" on Twitter home (Top tweets) and Foursquare Home (Recent Activity), that is in constant update, but theres no request under tools line Firebug.

Seems to be "hidden ajax". Does this exist?

Thanks.

check it out here: http://i.imgur.com/aN9Xm.png

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I'm seeing the requests on twitter it's using jsonp not ajax.

Ken Struys  2010-08-20 14:19:17

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