Yeah, you are right about that. I had faced it a few months ago following which I moved that part to AWS. The other API calls though in excess are below those variable limits.
I got a reply by twitter on their discussion forum that they are looking into the issue. Hoping they find the cause soon. On 26 October 2011 20:01, Brandon Wirtz <[email protected]> wrote: > Signed calls are still subject to a variable rate limit based on Twitters > given load. They throttle up and down based on available capacity.**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Nischal Shetty > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 26, 2011 2:47 PM > > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [google-appengine] URLFetch is timing out excessively**** > > ** ** > > It works from a non google environment. We have a service running on AWS > which is working smooth. It's not a whitelist problem because these are > signed calls which do not account for rate limiting based on IP.**** > > ** ** > > Someone from google has replied saying the problem is not on their end. I > have raised an issue on the twitter discussion forum (stupid of me to not > have done that simultaneously). **** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > On 26 October 2011 18:33, Brandon Wirtz <[email protected]> wrote:**** > > So you think that Fetches to only Twitter and FB are broken? Did you try > from a non-Goog Environment? There are Fail Whales all over today. **** > > **** > > And if you are running “Hundreds of API calls a minute” you are likely > hitting the API IP Limits since Twitter won’t grant a white list for Google > IP’s.**** > > **** > > You should be using a proxy to access twitter through a single IP what is > on the Twitter API white List.**** > > **** > > **** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *nischalshetty > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 26, 2011 12:11 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [google-appengine] URLFetch is timing out excessively**** > > **** > > I agree twitter times out but this is not because of them. I'm talking > about hundreds of timeout every minute.**** > > **** > > We have things in place to retry timeouts, but I'm talkin about timeouts > even after 3 retries with a timeout of 20 second each. **** > > **** > > **** > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/YJ2bm0bM_l8J. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.**** > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.**** > > > > **** > > ** ** > > -- > -Nischal**** > > twitter: NischalShetty <http://twitter.com/nischalshetty>**** > > facebook: Nischal <http://facebook.com/nischal>**** > > ** ** > > [image: Description: Image removed by sender.]<http://www.justunfollow.com/> > [image: Description: Image removed by sender.] <http://www.buffr.com/>** > ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.**** > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- -Nischal twitter: NischalShetty <http://twitter.com/nischalshetty> facebook: Nischal <http://facebook.com/nischal> <http://www.justunfollow.com> <http://www.buffr.com> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
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