FYI, I suspect there's some bugs in the whitelisting code because Twitter Karma is whitelisted and periodically I get back 400 rate limit failures in response to requests from my whitelisted IP.
If I'd exhausted my IP's whitelisted request quota, ALL subsequent requests should fail, right? This phrase from the wiki page leads me to believe this:
"IP whitelisting takes precedence to account rate limits. Requests from a whitelisted IP address made on a user's behalf will be deducted from the whitelisted IP's limit, not the users."
However, these rate limit failures are happening sporadically. I'm guessing there's some web hosts in the farm that are "broken" in some way, missing the correct whitelisting data, etc.
On 4/25/09 11:54 PM, Bill Kocik wrote:
On Apr 25, 9:08 pm, Cameron Kaiser<[email protected]> wrote:This has changed and I stand corrected; it is documented also on http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limitingThanks for the documentation pointer, I hadn't realized that was there. It's surprising, it turns out that if you're going to be making lots of auth'd requests on behalf of users, there's a tipping point at which whitelisting begins to work against you, and it's at only 200 simultaneous users. If you're gonna be above that, you're better off not being whitelisted.
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