I have been running into a recurring problem that I have been facing
for the past couple of days, on numerous machines.
I am extracting 200 tweets for a large number of users, using the
numeric user ID (user_id). After a small number of requests (between
10 and 50) I receive nothing but "This method requires
authentication". Authenticating with my username and password does not
make the message go away. I have verified that the users I am trying
to pull are not protected users. I have also verified that I am not
hitting the rate limit.
On my latest attempt, I used an IP I have not used in the past. I was
able to extract the first 200 tweets for *12* users, then I started
receiving 401s ("This method requires authentication") on every single
request of this type.
After about 10 minutes, I tried again and it worked for about another
15 users, then I started getting the same message as well as other
messages including 502.
Is this behavior expected? Does this 401 message possibly mean
something else?
