Passing streaming tweets from server to the client

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Hey there guys. This may be an incredibly simple question but I’m just conceptually blanking. So I’m streaming tweets in and wanting to visualize them on a map. So far I have successfully gotten the tweets to stream in using https://atmospherejs.com/mrt/twit, so that’s all well and good.

What I’m conceptually blanking on is sending the tweets themselves over to the client.

I’m sure this is a basic question, but I’m having trouble with the concepts of a stream and then forwarding that data along. Any suggestions or directions would be greatly appreciated!

if (Meteor.isServer) {
    Meteor.startup(function () {
        // code to run on server at startup
        Twit = new TwitMaker({
            consumer_key: "xxxx",
            consumer_secret: "xxxx",
            access_token: "xxxxxx",
            access_token_secret: "xxxx"
        });

        var stream = Twit.stream('statuses/sample');

        stream.on('tweet', function (tweet) {
            console.log(tweet);
        })


    });
}
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