Not able to set interval on socket.io event

Question

Not able to set interval on socket.io event

Is there a way to split and loop over each client while maintaining control of timing? I need to emit all tweets but with a set time in between each one. Here's the code so far that throws an exception:

var socketList = new Array();
io.on('connection',function(socket){
    socketList.push(socket);
});

setInterval(function() {
    socketList.forEach('tweet', function(tweet) {
        io.sockets.emit('info', {tweet: tweet});
    });
}, 2000);

This code works but streams the tweets too quickly:

io.on('connection', function (socket) {  
    stream.on('tweet', function(tweet) {
        socket.emit('info', {tweet: tweet});
    });
});

EDIT This code doesn't give any errors but doesn't stream any tweets:

var io = require('socket.io').listen(server);
var stream = T.stream('statuses/filter', { track: 'lol' })

var socketList = new Array();
io.on('connection',function(socket){
    socketList.push(socket);
});

function EmitTweets() {
    stream.socketList.forEach('tweet', function(tweet) {
        io.sockets.emit('info', {tweet: tweet});
    });
    setTimeout(EmitTweets, 1000);
}

Not sure where else to call "stream"

javascript
node.js
twitter
websocket
socket.io

Answer 1

setInterval is synchronous. Try this:

function emitTweets() {
  socketList.forEach('tweet', function(tweet) {
    io.sockets.emit('info', { tweet: tweet });
  });

  // this is the part that makes it repeat
  setTimeout(emitTweetes, 2000);
}