I'm certain there's no documentation or archival information readily available for this.
*cough* On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Ben Metcalfe <ben.metca...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm building a twitter authority bot that makes numerous calls to > twitter to derive a given user's authority. > > I'm about to turn this motha' on in production, and so I'm just > wondering how many calls to the API I can make per minute and without > being considered harmful? I have a whitelisted username and IP, but > would rather know the friendly limits than be suddenly turned off for > being too much. > > I am making use of as much caching as I can, but frankly there's a lot > of calls to be made so I'll still need to throttle. > > Perhaps Alex/someone at Twitter could let me know. > > Thanks > Ben > > PS: Do you guys have an IRC chan or something - I *REALLY* don't want > to turn this on and give you problems so would love to have some real > time contact (short of walking around to your offices!). >
