[twitter-dev] What is the hourly limit on retweets?

2011-04-18 Thread Adam Green
I need to set up an automatic retweeting capability for a client who wants to hold debates on Twitter. The basic idea is that 10-20 people would be tweeting using a predefined tag. My code would follow all of these users with the streaming API, and any tweets they send with this tag would be

Re: [twitter-dev] What is the hourly limit on retweets?

2011-04-18 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Adam, The exact logic of the limiting for posting tweets isn't disclosed (more obscurity for you ;)), but it isn't necessarily evenly divided into a 24 hour period. A retweet, for the purposes of this limit, is the same as a Tweet, so the daily and roaming period-based limiting for posting