> Hey, I'm making a small-application for our apartment complex at the > university I'm attending. It's going to be used for campus announcements and > requests. A lot of people have the same ip addresses, as both our university > and local apartment complex use the same low-level internet provider. We > often get a message in windows that another user has the same ip address as > one of us. It's annoying! Anyways, my question: I know I'm going to be using > the API (rss mainly) more than 100 times per hour with as many people as > we're expecting.... 1.) If I make the users create accounts, and I > authenticate them when getting status feeds... will that work even if a lot > of them have the same ip address? Like, does the rate limit take in account > their ip address if they're authenticated? I've tried testing this by using > http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/statuses/user_timeline/xxxxx.rss I'm > still rate limited, even if I use another username and password combination. > I'm hoping what I tried for an example isn't the same thing as HTTP basic > auth. 2.) Another question. Is there any way to set twitter to auto-send an > email when a user they're following posts a new tweet?
1. Rate limit is either by user, or by IP. If they're signed in, it should not be limiting by IP at the same time. You might look at the rate_limit_status method to see if the rate limit is really what is affecting you. 2. I can't speak for the Twitter team, but I suspect 40,000+ emails being sent out because Scoble blew his nose is not going to scale well. > ps: I dont think my browser is working correctly. New to Google Groups. I > posted, but nothing showed up. Trying to send through my email. Sry!! New subscribers to this group are automatically moderated due to the large amount of (now unsuccessfully attempted) spam the group receives. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "I'd love to go out with you, but I'll be at the opening of my garage door."
