Change Twitter tag filter keywords without reopening the stream

Question

Can I change the filter keywords in a Twitter stream when I open it?

I want to follow the second paragraph of the http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api checklist before starting, “Create a minimum number of connections”, and avoid closing and reopening the stream every time the keywords that I want to track change .

Answer 1

you cannot change the filter predicate without reconnecting, but on the streaming-api concepts page there are instructions on how to change predicates and make the user as smooth as possible

Answer 2

The official documentation says that you cannot update filter predicates; http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api_concepts#updating-filter-predicates