> In other words, you have a web app running on a single server with a > single IP. You make authenticated requests using each user's account. > If your IP is whitelisted, the calls go towards your 20k limit, if it > is not whitelisted, it goes against the current 150 limit for the > respective accounts. That's what it means by "IP whitelisting takes > precedence to account rate limits".
I don't believe that is true. If your web app is running on a whitelisted IP then you get up to 20k GET calls per hour. POST requests (status or DM) are counted against the user being authenticated. You CANNOT retrieve a user's rate limit status.