[twitter-dev] Re: Whitelist Limits for Direct Messaging
Got it. Thanks again Brian. -Mo On May 12, 4:27 pm, Brian Sutorius bsutor...@twitter.com wrote: I'm not sure what you mean - our REST whitelist only accepts usernames and IP addresses as whitelistable entities. Applications don't send direct messages, users do; the DM limit is on a per-user basis. Brian On May 12, 1:27 pm, Mo maur...@moluv.com wrote: Thanks Brian and Taylor. This definitely adds some clarification. There is one last thing, though. Brian, you mentioned that the limits you specified were NOT for IPs and apps. What would be the DM limit for a whitelisted app? I can't find that explicitly stated in any of the references. On May 12, 12:31 pm, Brian Sutorius bsutor...@twitter.com wrote: As I posted in another thread [1], here is information from our help center [2] to hopefully clarify this: - By default, Twitter accounts can send 250 DMs per day. - Accounts (not IPs and not apps) that are on the REST whitelist can send up to 10,000 DMs per day Taylor's point about the limit being account-based and not application- based is important to note. Brian Sutorius [1]http://bit.ly/9DyGDB [2]http://help.twitter.com/entries/160385 On May 12, 9:08 am, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: To my knowledge (and I might be wrong, but this is what I understand to be true): - there is a limit of 250 DMs per day for a user account, blanketly applied. Whitelisting for an application has no effect on this limit. This isn't an API limit. It's a limit for a Twitter user. A twitter user could contribute to their allocation by using the website or an API client. Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/episod On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Mo maur...@moluv.com wrote: I'm trying to find a reliable source for whitelist limits for Direct Messaging. I looked through the direct messaging limits and best practices for individual services? thread -http://bit.ly/cLVv1Qbut there weren't any authoritative descriptions of whitelist limits. What I'm looking for is: 1. DMs allowed per user per hour, and per day - (Where user is defined as someone using an app). 2. DMs allowed per app per hour, and per day I saw that Doug Williams had said that whitelisted users get 5000 DMs per day, but didn't specify whether that was an app total or a total for a random user using an app for DMs. The hourly limit for whitelisted apps wasn't specified at all. -Mo http://www.pay4tweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Whitelist Limits for Direct Messaging
As I posted in another thread [1], here is information from our help center [2] to hopefully clarify this: - By default, Twitter accounts can send 250 DMs per day. - Accounts (not IPs and not apps) that are on the REST whitelist can send up to 10,000 DMs per day Taylor's point about the limit being account-based and not application- based is important to note. Brian Sutorius [1] http://bit.ly/9DyGDB [2] http://help.twitter.com/entries/160385 On May 12, 9:08 am, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: To my knowledge (and I might be wrong, but this is what I understand to be true): - there is a limit of 250 DMs per day for a user account, blanketly applied. Whitelisting for an application has no effect on this limit. This isn't an API limit. It's a limit for a Twitter user. A twitter user could contribute to their allocation by using the website or an API client. Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/episod On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Mo maur...@moluv.com wrote: I'm trying to find a reliable source for whitelist limits for Direct Messaging. I looked through the direct messaging limits and best practices for individual services? thread -http://bit.ly/cLVv1Qbut there weren't any authoritative descriptions of whitelist limits. What I'm looking for is: 1. DMs allowed per user per hour, and per day - (Where user is defined as someone using an app). 2. DMs allowed per app per hour, and per day I saw that Doug Williams had said that whitelisted users get 5000 DMs per day, but didn't specify whether that was an app total or a total for a random user using an app for DMs. The hourly limit for whitelisted apps wasn't specified at all. -Mo http://www.pay4tweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Whitelist Limits for Direct Messaging
Thanks Brian and Taylor. This definitely adds some clarification. There is one last thing, though. Brian, you mentioned that the limits you specified were NOT for IPs and apps. What would be the DM limit for a whitelisted app? I can't find that explicitly stated in any of the references. On May 12, 12:31 pm, Brian Sutorius bsutor...@twitter.com wrote: As I posted in another thread [1], here is information from our help center [2] to hopefully clarify this: - By default, Twitter accounts can send 250 DMs per day. - Accounts (not IPs and not apps) that are on the REST whitelist can send up to 10,000 DMs per day Taylor's point about the limit being account-based and not application- based is important to note. Brian Sutorius [1]http://bit.ly/9DyGDB [2]http://help.twitter.com/entries/160385 On May 12, 9:08 am, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: To my knowledge (and I might be wrong, but this is what I understand to be true): - there is a limit of 250 DMs per day for a user account, blanketly applied. Whitelisting for an application has no effect on this limit. This isn't an API limit. It's a limit for a Twitter user. A twitter user could contribute to their allocation by using the website or an API client. Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/episod On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Mo maur...@moluv.com wrote: I'm trying to find a reliable source for whitelist limits for Direct Messaging. I looked through the direct messaging limits and best practices for individual services? thread -http://bit.ly/cLVv1Qbut there weren't any authoritative descriptions of whitelist limits. What I'm looking for is: 1. DMs allowed per user per hour, and per day - (Where user is defined as someone using an app). 2. DMs allowed per app per hour, and per day I saw that Doug Williams had said that whitelisted users get 5000 DMs per day, but didn't specify whether that was an app total or a total for a random user using an app for DMs. The hourly limit for whitelisted apps wasn't specified at all. -Mo http://www.pay4tweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Whitelist Limits for Direct Messaging
I'm not sure what you mean - our REST whitelist only accepts usernames and IP addresses as whitelistable entities. Applications don't send direct messages, users do; the DM limit is on a per-user basis. Brian On May 12, 1:27 pm, Mo maur...@moluv.com wrote: Thanks Brian and Taylor. This definitely adds some clarification. There is one last thing, though. Brian, you mentioned that the limits you specified were NOT for IPs and apps. What would be the DM limit for a whitelisted app? I can't find that explicitly stated in any of the references. On May 12, 12:31 pm, Brian Sutorius bsutor...@twitter.com wrote: As I posted in another thread [1], here is information from our help center [2] to hopefully clarify this: - By default, Twitter accounts can send 250 DMs per day. - Accounts (not IPs and not apps) that are on the REST whitelist can send up to 10,000 DMs per day Taylor's point about the limit being account-based and not application- based is important to note. Brian Sutorius [1]http://bit.ly/9DyGDB [2]http://help.twitter.com/entries/160385 On May 12, 9:08 am, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: To my knowledge (and I might be wrong, but this is what I understand to be true): - there is a limit of 250 DMs per day for a user account, blanketly applied. Whitelisting for an application has no effect on this limit. This isn't an API limit. It's a limit for a Twitter user. A twitter user could contribute to their allocation by using the website or an API client. Taylor Singletary Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/episod On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Mo maur...@moluv.com wrote: I'm trying to find a reliable source for whitelist limits for Direct Messaging. I looked through the direct messaging limits and best practices for individual services? thread -http://bit.ly/cLVv1Qbut there weren't any authoritative descriptions of whitelist limits. What I'm looking for is: 1. DMs allowed per user per hour, and per day - (Where user is defined as someone using an app). 2. DMs allowed per app per hour, and per day I saw that Doug Williams had said that whitelisted users get 5000 DMs per day, but didn't specify whether that was an app total or a total for a random user using an app for DMs. The hourly limit for whitelisted apps wasn't specified at all. -Mo http://www.pay4tweet.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Whitelist Limits
You should consider using the Streaming API in conjunction with the REST API to build such a service, it might make things a little easier. Currently there are several obstacles for a large-scale integration with a service that intends to duplicate a desktop application's functionality. The REST API, in part due to rate limiting, and in part due to the nature of polling, doesn't make this particularly easy at small scale, and makes it impractical at large- scale. As luck would have it, we've been very casually discussing just this sort of integration. Feel free to mail me your requirements and I'll get them to the Platform product manager. -John Kalucki twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Jul 7, 8:57 pm, whoiskb whoi...@gmail.com wrote: From what I can tell, the white list limits are 20,000 calls per hour. I am curious if any app out there has come close to hitting that limit yet, and if so could you provide some usage details about your application? I am trying to make a decision about creating a single user desktop app vs a multi user web app. I really want to create it as a web app, but I am concerned about the long term viability of the white list limit.
