Alex, are status update POSTs still excluded from this limit?
Mario. On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Alex Payne <[email protected]> wrote: > > Up until now we've allowed users and IPs on our whitelist an unlimited > number of requests per hour. When our whitelist was in the tens and > low hundreds, this made sense. Now that we have more developers on the > whitelist than we can reasonably maintain close communication with, we > need to put a ceiling on the number of requests per hour whitelisted > accounts and IPs can make. > > Starting later this week we'll be limiting those on the whitelist to > 20,000 requests per hour. Yes, you read that right: twenty THOUSAND > requests per hour. According to our logs, this accounts for all but > the very largest consumers of our API. This is essentially a > preventative measure to ensure that no one API client, even a > whitelisted account or IP, can consume an inordinate amount of our > resoures. > > If you run one of the services that routinely exceed 20k > requests/hour, please get in contact with us ([email protected]) as soon > as possible. Chances are good that you'll simply need to slow your > crawl rates, implement more caching on your end, and limit requests to > only active accounts. We're happy to work with you to find solutions. > > -- > Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. > http://twitter.com/al3x >
