ginatrapani/ThinkUp — comment on commit 3cdef7e77e7f9817e0c9d4b211de82dd2cd6bc15
File: webapp/plugins/twitterrealtime/model/class.StreamMessageQueueRedis.php line 40
By amygdala:

In fact I did use blpop originally.
Then when Mark W. did his pass, he removed it. When I asked him why, he couldn't remember :), and was going to take a look. I think this popped off his stack. Then as I got busy it popped off mine.

The blpop worked fine for me, and as far as I know there is no reason not to use it.

Btw - if you are interested in the Realtime plugin there is lots of potential work there-- we would like to make it possible for people to use it without having to start its scripts from the command line.
(I also have a branch in my fork that uses Twitter Site Streams instead of User Streams, but it's not part of ThinkUp proper yet).

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> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Christian G. Warden
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>> Why isn't BLPOP being used?
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