When a connection error occurs, tweetfeels does not attempt to reconnect.

[uclatommy]

Note: with Twitter's streaming API, you can keep a connection open indefinitely.

We need to be careful with reconnecting. If done too rapidly, it will cause the app to get banned from the api. The reconnection code needs to respond appropriately to Twitter's error messages and back-off reconnection if necessary.

Reconnect Guidelines
Error Codes

[uclatommy]

Here's a good starting point:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29582080/tweepy-make-stream-run-forever