Phirehose is a library constructed as a single, simple, abstract PHP class with all the functionality.

Key features of Phirehose:
- Provide a simple interface to the Twitter Streaming API for PHP applications.
- Comply to Streaming API recommendations for error handling, reconnection, etc.
- Encourage well-behaved streaming API clients.
- Operate independently of PHP extensions (ie: shared memory, PCNTL, etc).
- Handles connection/authentication to the twitter streaming API.
- Consumes the stream handing off each status to be enqueued by a method of your choice.
- Handles graceful reconnection/back-off on connection and API errors.
- Monitors/reports performance metrics and errors.

Limitations of Phirehose:
- The library doesn't:
- Decode/process tweets
- Provide any sort of queueing mechanism for asynchronous processing (though some examples are included)
- Provide any sort of inter-process communication
- Provide any non-streaming API functionality (ie: user profile info, search, etc)

What's New in This Release Phirehose:
- Fixed bug where filter predicates got "stuck" as blank/null.
- Fixed bug where hang could occur after reconnect to quiet streams.
- Cleaned up connect() state initialization to reliably reconnect.