jQuery Twitter Live Search Query Plugin - incoming posts disappear/reappear

[rachellesays]

Hi,

jQuery Twitter live search query feed plugin from http://www.dreamtemplate.com/dreamco...ion/tweet.html

Here is my implementation: http://rachellesays.com/twitter-try/tweet.html

Made it refresh every second, and commented out "Searching Twitter" text from tweet.html to get rid of weird jumps every time it refreshed.

However, whenever a new tweet comes in, it appears for a second or two, disappears, then reappears--doing this for three times or so almost like it's flashing.

I have a feeling the issue is in jquery.tweet.js when a new post is being appended/binded (if you look @ source code thru browser, lines 223-243, near the last third of the code).

ANY help on how to resolve this would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!!

[rnd me]

it's probably does to an older fetch arriving after the updated one.
http fetches are not done in order: some can take a while.

one second is way too little: the old ones can stack up, and twitter is going to turn you off after a few hours of war-hammering like your doing.

plus, i would be pissed if i realized your page sucks 500mb per day from my data plan; that's ridiculousness!