Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Twitter

[Cory Albrecht]

Speaking of rate limiting, I was trying to learn the Twitter API and 
Net::Twitter by making six degrees of twitter that would figure out 
how many hops it was from Account A to Account B when I ran up against 
limiting.


The way I had thought of doing it was basically the list of whom a 
person follows and if they follow back its a valid Nth degree hop. Then 
get whom that hop is following, see if they are following back, and just 
cycle outwards until you find the destination account. I'm sure you can 
see how quickly that eats up a rate limit.


Is the only way around that to apply for whitelisted status? Or are 
there some API tricks that I, as a noob, haven't stumbled across yet?

[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting Twitter

[b...@mindbus.nl]

Thank you for your quick reply.

I found out I was indeed rate limited, allthough i cant imagine having
done 150 requests testing my app only once.

Thanks anyway.

On 15 feb, 23:41, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
 You can check if you are getting rate limited with this 
 method:http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-account%C2%A0ra...

 If you are using OAuth onhttp://api.twitter.comthen you should be getting
 350 (last I heard) hits per hour. Otherwise you will be limited to 150/h.

 Abraham





 On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 07:32, b...@mindbus.nl b...@mindbus.nl wrote:
  Hi,

  I was creating a simple application which requests statuses of a
  certain list within my Twitter account using the following command:
 http://api.twitter.com/1/id/lists/list-id/statuses.xml.

  For some reason, after doing some requests, i get a HTTP 400 Bad
  Request.
  I have read that a client may only do 500 requests per hour, but i
  dont believe that i have done that many requests by simply testing my
  application.
  After some time all is well and i receive the expected result.

  Has someone else encountered this problem?

  I have already sent a request to whitelist my IP, but i want to make
  sure that not else is causing this problem.

  Thanks in advance.

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