We provide you the ability to programmatically throttle your API usage on the client side. I've documented it here [1]. If your users are complaining, then you should take the time to use the tools described in the documentation to gracefully handle API usage.
1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Alex Payne <[email protected]> wrote: > > We always supply a reason when rejecting whitelisting requests. That > reason should be in the body of the rejection email. > > If you create a bunch of accounts, our spam team is likely to suspend > them. Please address the issues mentioned in the rejection email and > re-apply. > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:34, Brandon Geiger <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Our users continue to complain about hitting API limits for our app. I > > applied to get whitelisted, but got rejected. I'm thinking of creating > > several "test" accounts that run the more intensive API call > > procedures as cron jobs, to not use our users' api calls. > > > > Any idea why we got rejected? (app name is Swattr) > > Any objections to this approach? > > > > > > -- > Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. > http://twitter.com/al3x >
