title: Streaming vs polling for tweets, performance?
body: <p>I want to sync my database with tweets from Twitter and display them in real time, but I am not sure which one is most performant</p>
  
  <p>What are the performance costs of having say, 50-100 open userstreams, compared to say, continous polling using their REST API, 50-100 times a minute?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>