tweepy/tweepy — pull request #176 by robbrit (2012-05-18 13:29:25+00:00)
Title: 2nd-last Tweet Issue

With the streaming API, filter() only grabs the 2nd to last tweet, not the most recent one. This patch fixes this issue so that tweets come in real-time.

Copied from this Stack Overflow answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/10368689/324978