Usually in this case some of the methods are being requested without authentication, so whitelisting isn't being applied.
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:04, Dimebrain <[email protected]> wrote: > > This might be anecdotal but I notice that it occurs more often for > these methods when I request methods in quick succession. > Today while developing my application I noticed that I sent one "get > followers" request which returned, and then I sent the identical call > again and it failed due to rate limit. I sent a call to test my rate > limit and it reported back 99/100. Right after that my TwitterFox > client plugin I'm using, also under the same auth, failed due to "rate > limit". I checked my rate limit again and it reported back 99/100. > > On Jan 22, 2:23 am, Alex Payne <[email protected]> wrote: >> Is it possible that you're attempting to log into Twitter with bad >> credentials? When go back to the Twitter web site are prompted to >> solve a CAPTCHA or told that your account is temporarily locked? >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 17:58, Dimebrain <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Currently, when I attempt the following API calls I receive the "rate >> > limit exceeded" error: >> >> >http://twitter.com/statuses/friends.xml >> >http://twitter.com/statuses/followers/someone.xml >> >http://twitter.com/friendships/exists.xml?user_a=me&user_b=someone >> >> > However when I request rate limits I am well within limit (I started >> > making these requests with 100/100). In addition, I I can make other >> > authenticated API calls under my auth credentials and they run fine >> > and dock me correctly against my rate limit. This has been occuring >> > for the last week and a bit. >> >> > No one on this IP address uses Twitter besides me so I can't figure it >> > has to do with my IP address exceeding limits. Does anyone have any >> > ideas? Is it just erratic / erroneous messages returned? >> >> > @Dimebrain >> >> -- >> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
