Backbone.js updating of models in a collection

Question

Let\'s say you are building a Twitter clone with Backbone.js. You have a collection of tweets. Each tweet is obviously an instance of the Tweet model.

You create an inst

Answer 1

I don't think this is a backbone issue. Using Twitter's RESTful API you can use the optional since_id parameter. After each call your collection could save the id of the most recent tweet it has fetched. Use this id in your url function and you'll only receive newer tweets.