[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Rate Limiting and Performance

2009-09-04 Thread pxpilot
Search API will rock if it would only be reliable what we see looks to be some sort of a funky cache, a query (atom) can be missing some latest tweets and then after a while they show up, if you tweak the query you can see 'em. you ever seen this problem? also what did you do special with user

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Rate Limiting and Performance

2009-09-04 Thread John Kalucki
The Search team is working on indexing latency and throughput, along with a many other things. There have been big improvements recently and more are on the way. In the mean time, if you need closer to real-time results, consider the track parameter on the Streaming API. -John Kalucki

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Rate Limiting and Performance

2009-09-04 Thread Reivax
John, the original message of this thread is about rate limit being totally erratic, as several users have noticed. here is the detail of what I'm seeing: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/40c82b4dbc0536bd Here is another user reporting the problem :

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Rate Limiting and Performance

2009-09-04 Thread John Kalucki
Various APIs have their own rate limiting mechanisms. The www, search and streaming rate limits are all customized to their usage patterns and share little to no code and/or state. -John On Sep 4, 9:49 am, Reivax xavier.yo...@gmail.com wrote: John, the original message of this thread is about

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Rate Limiting and Performance

2009-09-04 Thread John Kalucki
Dewald, I'm not on the search team, but there are a lot of discussions over there this morning about search api rate limits and related issues. Search rate limiting issues (vs. www.twitter.com or api.twitter.com) probably boil down to one of three categories: 1) Search service interruptions -