The rate limiting on follow requests isn't on the wiki. Last I heard it was 1000 follows per day, if you go over that limit then you will be blacklisted for 24 hours from that point.
On May 22, 9:11 am, Nial <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
