Thanks, Doug.

What about IPv6 Whitelisting? I haven't tried it, yet, but curious if it
works.

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Patrick Burrows
http://www.CleverHumans.com


On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Doug Williams <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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