there are few special cases to the rate-limiting (e.g. number of people that can be followed a day) that are in place to help control spam and abuse.
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Raffi, > > I'd request that exceptions not be made for DMs. All of us can think > of functions that will be wildly popular, such as sending bulk DMs to > all your followers, Aweber-like DM autoresponders, etc., etc. > > Exceptions are an opened can of worms. > > On Feb 6, 9:11 pm, Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com> wrote: > > whitelisting for direct messages is different than whiltelisting for API > > calls. i tend to believe we are a lot more restrictive in giving out > > whitelisting for DMs - but e-mail a...@twitter.com with your intentions > to > > request it. > > > > > > > > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:52 PM, neal rauhauser <nrauhau...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > I'd like a public answer for this, we have whitelisted systems and > some > > > of our customers are starting to use their accounts as 'command > centers', > > > our software permits them to mass message members of certain lists. > Right > > > now the biggest list is a dozen and it's used infrequently, but we have > > > proposals to two organizations with a million plus members and this > feature > > > is something they very specifically want ... > > > > > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Trevor Sehrer <trevor.seh...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > > >> Hey twitter-development-talk, > > > > >> I've searched Google and the list's archives for an answer to the > > >> following question but have yet to find it: do whitelisted user > accounts > > >> that have been whitelisted for 20k API calls/day have higher direct > message > > >> limits, as well? If so, what are they? If not, is there a process > for > > >> getting an account whitelisted for higher direct message limits? > > > > >> Thanks! > > >> trevor > > > > > -- > > > mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // > > > GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com > > > GV: 202-642-1717 > > > > -- > > Raffi Krikorian > > Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi > -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
