[twitter-dev] Re: modifying rate limits under serious load

2010-06-26 Thread Rich
Well I've seen my rate limit has dropped to 175 calls per hour now On Jun 24, 4:16 am, think0rdie mxe02...@gmail.com wrote: if it means you won't expand Twitter's capacity itself, movingratelimits for all clients is simply a bad news for us, end users. in effect, today I've got more API

[twitter-dev] Re: modifying rate limits under serious load

2010-06-23 Thread Lucas Vickers
Could you give more information on how you would lower a specific user's limits? For example my client does the following, this is of course simplified api_requests_left = 0; loop { if(api_requests_left == 0) { update_request_limits(); } // hit your server and ask my remaining limit, sleep

[twitter-dev] Re: modifying rate limits under serious load

2010-06-23 Thread Worth
So what is going to be the time periods between changes. Is going to be changed by the day,hour, minute? cause it can change like every 2 minutes it would be hard to tell a client that they had 50 more calls one minute and 0 the next. And what is going to be our interval of change at minimum

[twitter-dev] Re: modifying rate limits under serious load

2010-06-23 Thread think0rdie
if it means you won't expand Twitter's capacity itself, moving rate limits for all clients is simply a bad news for us, end users. in effect, today I've got more API errors on HootSuite than ever. in other words, Twitter experience simply has become worse.