I can see from the logs that, on at least one occasion, your account was
logging in too often and was login rate limited. Log in once and keep the
connection open as long as possible. If you keep churning the connection,
you'll get limited, and eventually banned.
-John Kalucki
http://twitter.com/jkalucki
Twitter Inc.
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:26 PM, benofsky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting a lot of 401 errors on the streaming api using the sample
> method. I am using basic authentication through the username
> clarity_li. I am backing off as suggested in the documentation, with
> an initial wait of 10 seconds, doubling each 4xx error and capping at
> 240 seconds.
>
> I can't work out why this is happening, it usually works for a few
> minute before this happens, if I get disconnected intentionally I wait
> 1 second before reconnecting, if there is a network error I follow the
> guidelines in the documentation.
>
> The only other reason supplied in the docs which could be causing this
> is if the client is too slow, but I am on a 100mbps university
> internet connection and take approximately 1ms to process each
> incoming tweet.
>
> I would be very grateful for any help.
>
> Regards,
> Ben
>
