Whitelisting by OAuth is currently not available. You will need a static IP
address if you are running an EC2 applicaiton.

Doug Williams
Twitter API Support
http://twitter.com/dougw


On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Peter Denton <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Bill,
> Whitelisting is done per IP, related to the number of requests by your
> server.
>
> -Peter
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Bill Kocik <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I was just looking at the form use to apply for whitelisting, which
>> says you must fill it out while logged in as the account you want the
>> rate limit raised for. In my case, my app will be used by arbitrary
>> Twitter account holders, who will not be using my credentials, so
>> whitelisting my Twitter login will do nothing for my app. I saw Alex
>> mention in another thread that whitelisting by OAuth will become the
>> preferred method for whitelisting apps running in clouds (mine will be
>> in EC2).
>>
>> I am assuming that OAuth whitelisting means I'll be able to whitelist
>> my app, and the raised limit would apply for requests having OAuth
>> access tokens obtained by my application, regardless of the Twitter
>> user they belong to?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Bill
>>
>
>
>
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> Peter M. Denton
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> [email protected]
>
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