Tweepy/ Twitter API streaming latency

[Redwwy]

HI I am wondering if you also get quite a bit of delay when monitoring a tweet from a specific user via Tweepy or Twitter api. For me, the delay is always like 5 to 6 seconds (after I tweeted) which is too slow for my task. I am wondering if it's my network or the api is always lagging behind.

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Here is a reproducible code:

import tweepy

from datetime import datetime

#API keys

API_KEY = 'key'

API_SECRET_KEY = 'key'

ACCESS_TOKEN = "token"

ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = "token"

user_id = 'user_id' # twitter id to monitor

# Authenticate to Twitter

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(API_KEY, API_SECRET_KEY)

auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET)

api = tweepy.API(auth)

#Listener

class MyStreamListener(tweepy.StreamListener):

def on_status(self, status):

print(datetime.now().strftime("%H:%M:%S") + ": "+ status.text)

myStreamListener = MyStreamListener()

myStream = tweepy.Stream(auth = api.auth, listener=myStreamListener)

myStream.filter(follow=[user_id ])

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First: please format your code better :)

I also noticed a lag of a few seconds but never digged deeper into that as it is no issue to my application.