Hi Daniel, I am using tweet# a lot, and it would be good if you catch the 503 error status on the rate limited requests (including the Retry-After header in the response), I have had to implement it in tweet# for our product.
Kind Regards, Paul 2009/3/3 Dimebrain <[email protected]> > > I have experienced sending search requests out which return a plain > string, rather than JSON representing a twitter error. It's this: > > "You have been rate limited. Enhance your calm." > > a) What is the rate limiting based on, IP or client? What is the > limit? I develop a Twitter library (tweetsharp) and by default I send > the tweet# credentials along with the call. If this means that anyone > using my library will be rate limited because of that header > information, I need to know so I can force my users to provide their > own credentials so that the library isn't unusable in this area, and > > b) Can we get his as XML, JSON and not a plain string? > >
