title: Utilizing Twitter's Streaming API w/ jQuery?
body: <p>Twitter's <a href="http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Streaming API</a> seems to provide a way to receive realtime tweets without constantly polling for new data. Would it be possible to make use of this API using jQuery (or maybe falling back to pure JS)?</p>
  
  <p>As far as I can tell, there's no built-in way for jQuery to stream an HTTP request with JSON. Is that correct, or did I miss something? If this ability isn't built-in, has anyone already tackled this problem with a plugin or example?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update:</strong> From what I can gather, HTML 5's support for WebSockets would likely be the best approach to achieve this. Unfortunately that means mainstream compatibility is still at least a few years out. As far as I know, these browser versions currently support WebSockets in some fashion:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>WebKit 5 (Safari/Chrome)</li>
  <li>Firefox 4</li>
  <li>IE9 (Eventually)</li>
  </ul>