Twitter Streaming API, how to update user timeline

[omaromar]

Please forgive this question if its a bit dumb, but I am new to php and slightly lost.I am trying to write a little twitter client, where the user's timeline updates come from the Twitter Streaming API (it is not complete but for the sake of design it will do).The process would be:User signs up-> I add him to the list of users to track in the Stream -> If I see a message for the user I publish it on his timeline. (The stream listening would happen on the server).How do I go about doing something like this in php ? It seems a socket server is the way to go (http://www.functionblog.com/?p=67=1), but then people tend to say its a bit of hack....Thanks a lot