On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Lien Tran <[email protected]> wrote: > QUESTION 1: Does this mean that if my user is signed up with multiple > Twitter applications, then the total number of requests that those > applications can make on behalf of my user is 100? That is, the 100 > rate limit is split across all the applications?
Yes. If you have 10 apps running at the same time doing authenticated requests, then all of them count to your rate limit. Some applications try to act a little bit smarter and do unauthenticated requests while possible/not capped and switch to authenticated requests when that happens. > QUESTION 2: If I have a application server with several hundred > thousand users, and I have my IP address whitelisted, does this mean I > can make only 20000 requests per hour for all users that are > registered with my server? I never whitelisted a server, but I pretty sure it means you can do 20000 requests per hour from that IP, no matter which user you use. Also, I think those won't count to the user personal limit rating. > If so, then I'm not sure how whitelisting > will help me here. Am I better off with just relying on the account > rate limit of 100? Depends on what you trying to do. -- Julio Biason <[email protected]> Twitter: http://twitter.com/juliobiason
