[twitter-dev] Re: When is whitelisting necessary?

2009-08-17 Thread boaz
Thank you all, looks like I picked a tricky issue for my first question here. After reading all the threads I understand the behavior, although still a bit confused about the rational behind it. At least I am not the only one confused about it :) On Aug 16, 9:16 pm, Bill Kocik wrote: > I thi

[twitter-dev] Re: When is whitelisting necessary?

2009-08-16 Thread Bill Kocik
I think the number of "So how does whitelisting really work?" threads that have taken place, and continue to take place on this list indicate a lack of clarity in documentation. Perhaps someone from Twitter can take the task of updating the rate limiting docs to more explicitly spell out how it a

[twitter-dev] Re: When is whitelisting necessary?

2009-08-16 Thread srikanth reddy
http://groups.google.co.in/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/e75daf87a23a0a61# On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Sam Street wrote: > > Necessary, for example, if you use a particular account to notify your > users of a certain event (sending them notifications). Large apps with

[twitter-dev] Re: When is whitelisting necessary?

2009-08-16 Thread Sam Street
Necessary, for example, if you use a particular account to notify your users of a certain event (sending them notifications). Large apps with high traffic might need to send over 150 alerts from the bot account per hour. Im thinking it's also used for apps that try to deliver tweets in 'realtime'