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I was going to mention this but I decided it wasn't really necessary to make my point. I was just trying to show that no matter how hard certain people push real-time it usually still comes down to polling in a desktop situation. I think people have gotten it into their minds that 15-60 minutes delayed isn't real-time while 1-15 minutes is.

But I agree that most places will throttle you if you request their feed too often, so how are they going to feel when every one of their subscribers requests their feed within the same minute every time they make an update? I guess that's the big question.




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