Patrick, Yes. Each whitelisted IP address is allowed 20000 requests per hour. I will clarify this point in the documentation.
Thanks, Doug ---------------------------------------------------------------- Doug Williams | Platform Support | Twitter, Inc. 539 Bryant St. Suite 402, San Francisco, CA 94107 http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:43 AM, P Burrows <[email protected]> wrote: > (s/b 100,000 total, not 120,000, my maths was broke.) > -- > Patrick Burrows > http://www.CleverHumans.com > > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:31 AM, P Burrows <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I apologize if this question has already been answered in the archives. >> I've followed this list for a couple days and hadn't seen this specific >> question come up. >> >> My application has been white listed. In doing so, I specified a set of 5 >> IP addresses from which traffic from my application may come. TFM states >> [1]: >> >> we offer whitelisting which will raise an account or IP address' rate >> limit to 20000 requests per hour. >> >> My understanding is that this means each of my 5 IP Addresses can make >> 20,000 unique API requests per hour (for a total of 120,000 API requests / >> hr as long as I write some sort of IP Address load balancing code.) But I >> have not seen that actually spelled out in so many words. Is my assumption >> correct? (my app is nowhere near that limit, but I am working on some >> capacity planning numbers.) >> If my assumption is correct, is there a further limit on the number of >> unique addresses my Application can have whitelisted? >> >> Also, is whitelisting limited to IPv4? I have not yet tried it with any >> IPv6 addresses. >> >> >> >> [1] http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting?SearchFor=white+list&sp=1 >> >> -- >> Patrick Burrows >> http://www.CleverHumans.com >> > >
