Re: [twitter-dev] API HTTP Post statuses/update.xml

2010-07-29 Thread Eric Mortensen
For instance, set up the my database to create 200 tweets to post to a account. It ran at 11:49 AM EST. I noticed that 127 tweets were posted and the remaining got kicked with the error response. Not sure if there is a limit of 127 I thought it was 150 limit per hour. This also does not hit the

Re: [twitter-dev] API HTTP Post statuses/update.xml

2010-07-29 Thread Eric Mortensen
Why not? If Twitter states I can send 150 an hour or 1000 a day I should be able to. Not my rules its twitters. So I guess it needs to be written somewhere that 42 per hour is the limit. I am just trying to understand why it appears that I am hitting a limit when i am only doing what twitter

Re: [twitter-dev] API HTTP Post statuses/update.xml

2010-07-29 Thread Matt Harris
Hey Eric, The 150 limit you refer to relates to GET requests to the API. This is documented on our developer resources site at http://dev.twitter.com/pages/rate-limiting#rest. So information is collected in the same place i'll explain the rate limiting concepts of interest in this message. In

Re: [twitter-dev] API HTTP Post statuses/update.xml

2010-07-28 Thread Eric Mortensen
But, It appears did not hit a 1000 update limit since after an hour and can start updates again. That why it appears to be an hourly limit. Not to mention when this started I did not even have a 1000 tweets total on the account. That is why it can't be the 1000 a day limit. There is should be

Re: [twitter-dev] API HTTP Post statuses/update.xml

2010-07-27 Thread Eric Mortensen
Here is a response: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash errorUser is over daily status update limit./error request/1/statuses/update.xml/request /hash On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.comwrote: Hey Eric, Sorry that help article didn't answer your

Re: [twitter-dev] API HTTP Post statuses/update.xml

2010-07-27 Thread Matt Harris
Hey Eric, That error is the Twitter Limits kicking in saying there are too many status updates being posted by the account. This isn't an API rate limit but a natural limit which applies to all of Twitter. A user may not Twitter more than 1000 updates a day (this includes retweets). More

[twitter-dev] API HTTP Post statuses/update.xml

2010-07-15 Thread Eric
It appears that I am hitting a 150 post rate limit when I use the statuses/update.xml api to update a twitter account eventhough I should not have this limit doing only a post. Is there a reason why? Here is the code I am using from oracle to do this: create or replace PACKAGE BODY tweet AS

Re: [twitter-dev] API HTTP Post statuses/update.xml

2010-07-15 Thread Matt Harris
Hi Eric, In addition to the API Rate Limits there are general usage limits which apply to all of Twitter, including the website. These limits restrict various actions including the number of updates that can be posted per day. You can read more about Twitter Limits on our help website:

Re: [twitter-dev] API HTTP Post statuses/update.xml

2010-07-15 Thread Eric Mortensen
Unfortunately not. Do you have anything else that might explain it? On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Matt Harris thematthar...@twitter.comwrote: Hi Eric, In addition to the API Rate Limits there are general usage limits which apply to all of Twitter, including the website. These limits

Re: [twitter-dev] API HTTP Post statuses/update.xml

2010-07-15 Thread Matt Harris
Hey Eric, Sorry that help article didn't answer your question. Can you provide the actual HTTP request being made and the HTTP response you get back? We're interested in the response body content in particular. Also, remember we disable basic authentication on August 16th so you want to switch