Hi, I'm been developing a client-side app that uses basic HTTP Authentication into twitter.com.
The problem is that when logging-in with a whitelisted account, the 20,000 quota is correctly reflected in the remaining hits as displayed on-site whilst using IE and FF, but in Chrome and Opera, the quota is back to 100 when logging in with the same account. You can see here: http://tr.im/iqLY Enter your username and password - immediately at top-right there will be a number - the remaining hits. It seems this quota is dependent on twitter detecting a whitelisted account, which is determined by the browser. Furthermore, http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.json http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml in the same browser, eg IE will display different results. Former ~20000, latter 100 and across browser, sometimes the results for each are identical, ~100.
