Real time feeds / AJAX and web hosting bandwidth

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If I created a JQuery twitter feed widget which should display real time information (or poll at very frequent times), will this have a big affect on my bandwidth cap with my web hosting company.

However since its javascript, it will be the clientside which will poll twitter, not the web server?

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I’m not sure why one would reinvent [URL=“https://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets/widget_search”]the wheel here, but as long as you aren’t proxying the twitter traffic through your server you would be pulling on twitter, not your host or your bandwidth.