as i remember, you can send a simple email to Twitter and increase your
rate limit.

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Scott Elcomb <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:09 PM, grant li <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   I'm working on a project that require connect to twitter service.
> >   The reason I have to do this is that we want to use a twitter account
> to
> > regularly grab the newest twits about certain topic term. But there is a
> > rate limit to this function. So, we would like to use client's account to
> > access twitter. This would hopefully increase the rate limit.
>
> I don't know the solution to this offhand but some points to consider:
>
> - Twits is a term typically used for Twitter users (in my experience),
> perhaps you meant tweets?
> - Proceeding with this may likely be a gross violation of Twitters
> ToS; doing so may get your app and/or client blacklisted
> <https://dev.twitter.com/docs/rate-limiting#blacklisting> or worse
> <https://dev.twitter.com/terms/api-terms> (Section II-4-D and -G,
> Section V-1)
> - Regarding identity: <https://dev.twitter.com/terms/api-terms> (Section
> III)
>
> Personally, I'd recommend applying for whitelisted (stream) access
> <https://dev.twitter.com/docs/rate-limiting-faq#how-whitelisting>
>
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