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by bryanh 4672 days ago
There is no middle intermediary, its just two servers. For example, Facebook & your app.

Instead of polling `facebook.com/api/posts` every 2/5/15/60 minutes, you'd set up a subscription for Facebook to ping you at `yoursite.com/hook.php`. The subscription would be managed under `facebook.com/api/subscriptions`.