Hi Adam,
The exact logic of the limiting for posting tweets isn't disclosed (more
obscurity for you ;)), but it isn't necessarily evenly divided into a 24
hour period. A retweet, for the purposes of this limit, is the same as a
Tweet, so the daily and roaming period-based limiting for posting statuses
applies collectively to both tweets and retweets.
This type of account is a great way to curate topical tweets like this.
There are a few automation rules associated with them:
http://support.twitter.com/articles/76915-automation-rules-and-best-practices--
as you've described the account, I don't think you have anything to
worry
about in that regard.
@episod http://twitter.com/episod - Taylor Singletary
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Adam Green 140...@gmail.com wrote:
I need to set up an automatic retweeting capability for a client who
wants to hold debates on Twitter. The basic idea is that 10-20 people
would be tweeting using a predefined tag. My code would follow all of
these users with the streaming API, and any tweets they send with this
tag would be retweeted by an account that acts as the aggregator for
all the debaters. They only want tweets from these users to be
retweeted. This means that anyone who wants to follow the debate could
just follow the aggregation account. This is better than using search
to follow a tag, because only tweets by the specified users would be
retweeted. Anyone could read this debate, but only specific users
could add to the debate.
My question is how many tweets can be retweeted by a single account in
an hour? The docs are predictably obscure:
The Update Limit of 1,000 updates per day is further broken down into
semi-hourly intervals. If you hit your account update limit, please
try again in a few hours after the limit-period has elapsed.
Does this mean that within 1 hour only 1000/24 = 42 retweets could be
sent? Or does it mean something else?
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