[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Profile Widget RateLimit

2010-01-14 Thread Jason King
Thanks Josh - much appreciated. Jason

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Profile Widget RateLimit

2010-01-13 Thread joshnesbitt
Hi Jason, As far as im aware the widget does not actually get rate limited, i'm sure i read somewhere that this was not included in the normal rate limit (but don't quote me on that). The best way is to use an effecting caching technique. If you cache the content every x minutes you should be

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Profile Widget RateLimit

2010-01-13 Thread Jason King
Hi Josh, Thank you for getting back to me. If I was to provide a widget myself and make API calls, I would certainly be above the 2 calls per hour (5.5tps). I would therefore have to implement a caching layer. Added complexity comes from the fact that there are several instances of the web

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Profile Widget RateLimit

2010-01-13 Thread Jason King
Hi Josh, Thank you for getting back to me. I am currently at the stage of evaluating the best approach to use. My level of transactions per second (tps) and data staleness requirements may well push me over the whitelisted call rate at times (2 per hour / 5.5tps ) even with caching. Some

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Profile Widget RateLimit

2010-01-13 Thread joshnesbitt
To me it sounds like a setup that you could do with a centralised data source. I would be tempted to build some sort of Twitter proxy service which all your requests go through. You could mimic the Twitter API however yours could including a caching mechanism which would support all of your other