Hi again,
Thank you for your prompt reply, I really appreciate it.
My application just went over the limit again on one account, and new
status updates sent through the API are not accepted. When I try to
post an update through the web UI to the same account, I get the error
message "Wow, that's
but the http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting doc also said:
"If you have received verification from Twitter that your account and/
or IP address has been whitelisted you can verify your whitelisting
with the accounts/rate_limit_status method. Calling this method with
credentials will return
The doc says: "IP whitelisting takes precedence to account rate
limits. GET requests from a whitelisted IP address made on a user's
behalf will be deducted from the whitelisted IP's limit, not the
users."
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting
If he's seeing a 20k limit, then that implies it's
Martin,
That's interesting.
Is there a pattern to this? Can you offer steps for recreation? It would be
helpful to have full header information when this does happen so we can look
to see if a specific machine that is returning incorrect information.
Thanks,
Doug
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:26 P
Hi there,
I'm getting the same thing, that is the rate limit for my IP address
rather than for the account... most of the time. I run this curl
command
curl -u : http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml
where and are the account's real username and
password. Most of the time the respo
Sorry about emailing you my last response.
I understand what you're saying about firefox - though I'm having the
same issue with requests via Microsoft.XMLHTTP requests - it's gone
the end of the day now (I do have a habit of starting these things
when there's no time). Will carry on the fight to
Hi Justin,
The user:pass is a shortcut used by some browsers and libraries
but is not supported in all libraries. What language/library are you
using? Most of them have some option for setting the user and password
directly. Also, the most common issue when seeing the IP limit is an
