According to the current docs, the users/profile_image path is not
currently rate limited:
http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/profile_image/:screen_name
But when I access this method, I'm sometimes getting rate limit
errors:
{error:Rate limit exceeded. Clients may not make more than 150
I pull json results from a url like this:
http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/.json?count=9include_rts=truecallback=jsonp1295903703204_=12959037
Where X is the feed name. Normally, this works (I can't say what
the feed name is, unfortunately). But I recently renamed the
I'm having the same problem. This doesn't make much sense. It also
seems to still count deleted tweets, which seems like lousy behavior.
I assume they do this cut down on query paramters and thus server
overload, but it still stinks, especially since there is no user-
available programatic way