I tweeted "foo", then "bar", then many other things (several unprintable), but kept getting back the reply I got for "foo".
Developers, how about a more helpful error message like "out of tweets" or something? My client splits long messages into multiple tweets, so I'm guessing I tend to burn my limit faster (only happened once so far though). I'm also writing a bot, and an error or rate limit status would be useful there too. Of course, it's a spambot, so I see your point ;) -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile. On 3/16/09, Abraham Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > The limit is high enough that you should be able to update plenty. Twitter > drops tweets that are the same as the last tweet so if you update "foo" and > the "foo" again only the first one will be posted. > > 2009/3/16 Doug Williams <[email protected]> > >> >> Kelly, >> There is no method that is available which will inform you how many >> tweets you have left for a given time period. My suggestion would be >> to tweet more important updates less often. You can of course try to >> convince use why we think such a method would benefit anyone but >> spammers but of course that is a long shot... >> >> Thanks, >> Doug Williams >> Twitter API Support >> http://twitter.com/dougw >> >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Kelly Jones >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > I know /rate_limit_status.json tells me how many API calls I have >> > left, but what tells me how many tweets I have left? >> > >> > I once had lots of API calls left, but when I tweeted "foo" (via the >> API), >> > the tweet didn't go through and I kept getting back data on my last >> > successful tweet (ie, the one immediately before "foo").
