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Announcing gzip compression for Streaming APIs

A piece of feedback we regularly get from Streaming API consumers is that the bandwidth required to maintain a connection can be very large for high-traffic connections such as the Firehose and Site Streams. As the number of Tweets flowing through Twitter's servers grows, this has been a bigger and bigger problem. I'm happy to announce that we've started rolling out code which will help address this, by sending gzipped streams to consumers who request them.

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from Twitter Developers blogs https://dev.twitter.com/blog/announcing-gzip-compression-streaming-apis