The following sample code snippets demonstrate one way of establishing a streaming HTTP connection to Twitter's PowerTrack and Firehose streams, using gzip compression.
The snippets are available in the following programming languages:
- C#
- Java
- PHP
- Python
- Ruby
These snippets should serve as an example only for the basic API functions, and do not provide additional functionality that will be crucuial to the success of your application (e.g. reconnect logic).