Hi all, I've been using the Stream API over the past few days. I left it running for about 2 hours yesterday and noticed that I was receiving the throttle response codes - saying I had missed X number of tweets. Eventually my API HTTP request was just timing out. I assume I had been completely throttled off. I'm using the filter query with less than 5 keywords.
I turned it off immediately and was able to get back on the Stream API a few minutes later without being throttled at all. My question is, what am I supposed to do when I see that I am being throttled? From reading the docs, I see that I can be throttled if my bandwidth can't handle the Stream. This is probably why I am being throttled since I don't think I'd be throttled for simply leaving the Stream open for 2 hours, would I? When I see a throttle message, should I disconnect and wait 30 seconds or so and then reconnect? I was reluctant to do this because I read that I can be banned entirely for reconnecting too often. It sounds to me like reconnecting shouldn't be required. Thanks, Ryan -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
