tweepy/tweepy — pull request #144 by danfairs (2012-01-31 16:08:30+00:00)
Title: Use a buffer rather than reading the Twitter response one byte at a time...

.... This actually respects the buffer_size option that was already there, but unused.

This improves performance from processing about 25 tweets/sec on my 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro pegging a core at 99% up to processing about 50/sec using 10% CPU.