Patrick,
Yes. Each whitelisted IP address is allowed 20000 requests per hour. I will
clarify this point in the documentation.

Thanks,
Doug

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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
>>
>
>

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