Re: [twitter-dev] Re: About update limits
As a general rule, whenever Twitter is cagey about limits, it's due to anti-abuse reasons. It's not in the interest of fighting abuse, and thus the community as a whole, to talk about certain limits. Also, some limits are subject to continuous or unannounced adjustment, so they're not practical to make public. This issue has been aired before, at length, on this list. Please save your emails, as there's little chance that rhetoric will persuade the abuse people to go against data that show that the current policy is, unfortunately, the best policy. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 7:33 AM, akaii wrote: > Pardon, I'd just like to follow-up on my question in case it was > missed. I'm fine with not knowing what the precise sub-limits are, but > can I at least ask why the specifics aren't made public? I just need > to be able to respond with something in case our client asks... It'll > be easier for them to swallow the idea that it's a twitter policy if > we can explain the reason why the policy exists. > > On Apr 29, 4:45 pm, Brian Sutorius wrote: >> To clarify, statuses/update is not affected by rate-limit whitelisting >> as it's a POST call and we don't maintain a separate whitelist for >> boosting the daily tweet limit above 1000. While we do not give out >> the specifics around the "sub-limits," they *are* administered on a >> per-account basis and if you stay around your approximation of 20 >> tweets per half-hour you should be fine. >> >> Brian Sutorius >> >> On Apr 29, 6:07 am, Raffi Krikorian wrote: >> >> > the numbers are roughly broken up over the day. and the limit applies to >> > an >> > account. >> >> > and yes - there is a whitelisting for status/updates -- please e-mail >> > a...@twitter to ask for it. >> >> > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:26 AM, akaii wrote: >> > > This is what the FAQ has to say about status update limits: >> >> > > Updates: 1,000 per day. The daily update limit is further broken down >> > > into smaller limits for semi-hourly intervals. Retweets are counted as >> > > updates. >> >> > > I'm a little unclear as to what exactly is meant by "further broken >> > > down into smaller limits for semi-hourly intervals". Is the 1000 per >> > > day limit divided evenly between the 48 half hours each day (around 20 >> > > or so tweets per half an hour?). >> >> > > Also, I'm assuming this limit applies to each unique account? >> >> > > Is this limit absolutely fixed? Or is there some equivalent to >> > > "whitelisting" for status/update limits as well? >> >> > > Thanks... >> >> > -- >> > Raffi Krikorian >> > Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi >
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: About update limits
yeah - i was mistaken. i'm just a lowly engineer :P sutorius (the brian referenced on that e-mail, and he has posted in this forum before) knows best in this case. On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Chris White wrote: > Hello Raffi, > > > and yes - there is a whitelisting for status/updates -- please e-mail > > a...@twitter to ask for it. > > I don't have permissions so I can't post their name, but a friend of > mine sent such a request and received this response: > > > Thank you for writing in. Sorry for any confusion, but API > whitelisting does not cover the statuses/update call, as this call is > a POST method. All Twitter accounts are subject to the same 1000 > tweets per day limit. We also do not have a specific limit status call > for remaining tweets, but I will pass this along to our engineers as a > feature request. I apologize for the inconvenience that this causes to > you and your team. > > Thanks, > Brian > > > Seems to be conflicting with the previous statement, so I'm not sure > what to make of it. > > Best Regards, > Chris White > -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: About update limits
Large recruitment consultancies seem to get very close to that limit, tweeting out details of vacancies. Can be quite useful to follow for a short while. On 30 April 2010 01:40, Dewald Pretorius wrote: > I can't think of a use or requirement that would need more than 1,000 > tweets per day. > > Unless you're promoting teeth whitening affiliate links that > absolutely must be sent at a rate of one tweet every 30 seconds, > because we all know how quickly the teeth of some followers turn > yellow. > > On Apr 29, 8:45 pm, Brian Sutorius wrote: > > To clarify, statuses/update is not affected by rate-limit whitelisting > > as it's a POST call and we don't maintain a separate whitelist for > > boosting the daily tweet limit above 1000. While we do not give out > > the specifics around the "sub-limits," they *are* administered on a > > per-account basis and if you stay around your approximation of 20 > > tweets per half-hour you should be fine. > > > > Brian Sutorius > > > > On Apr 29, 6:07 am, Raffi Krikorian wrote: > > > > > > > > > the numbers are roughly broken up over the day. and the limit applies > to an > > > account. > > > > > and yes - there is a whitelisting for status/updates -- please e-mail > > > a...@twitter to ask for it. > > > > > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:26 AM, akaii wrote: > > > > This is what the FAQ has to say about status update limits: > > > > > > Updates: 1,000 per day. The daily update limit is further broken down > > > > into smaller limits for semi-hourly intervals. Retweets are counted > as > > > > updates. > > > > > > I'm a little unclear as to what exactly is meant by "further broken > > > > down into smaller limits for semi-hourly intervals". Is the 1000 per > > > > day limit divided evenly between the 48 half hours each day (around > 20 > > > > or so tweets per half an hour?). > > > > > > Also, I'm assuming this limit applies to each unique account? > > > > > > Is this limit absolutely fixed? Or is there some equivalent to > > > > "whitelisting" for status/update limits as well? > > > > > > Thanks... > > > > > -- > > > Raffi Krikorian > > > Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi >
