I have a bot which scans an email account for Twitter follow requests and then attempts to create a new connection with them. This is working correctly, however it would seem that I'm hitting a rate limit. After a few users are followed, I start receiving the error "Could not follow user: You are unable to follow more people at this time."
The page the error links me to suggests a few reasons why I may have been rate limited, but I don't seem to meet any of the criteria. This occurs after following around 10 or so users and then lasts for a day, before apparently being reset. The problem is, by that time new users have followed me and the cycle repeats. Should I be pausing between requests? I'm not sure whether the Twitter servers will automatically turn down the requests if I don't enforce some kind of interval. I'm using OAuth to authenticate my requests and it would appear that creating follow requests is the only action limited. I can still post and grab tweets via the API. Any suggestions?
