@jim.renkel. Thanks a ton. I think now it is clear. <<It appears to me that each user of a white-listed site gets 20k requests per hour, independent of any other users of that site or *any other uses of the twitter API at other sites by that user *>>
probably this is what they mean by *"IP whitelisting takes precedence to account rate limits*. *GET requests from a whitelisted IP address made on a user's behalf will be deducted from the whitelisted IP's limit, not the users*." If the IP limit is for the consumer then it will lead to denial of service attacks. This is how we wanted it to work. Srikanth On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:52 AM, jim.renkel <james.ren...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My experience with this is, I think, a little bit different than what > you describe. > > It appears to me that each user of a white-listed site gets 20k > requests per hour, independent of any other users of that site or any > other uses of the twitter API at other sites by that user. > > I didn't think this was what twitter intended and reported it as a bug > (See: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=617), but > the twitter folk said "Yup, working as intended". > > After you log in at http://twxlate.com, the site reports rate limit > information on every page view, so you can see how this works there. > > Comments expected and welcome. > > Jim Renkel > > On Jul 23, 3:48 am, jmathai <jmat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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. >
