Here is what is happening. I am trying to create an app that runs on my desktop. It does a friendships/destroy on people that have chosen not to follow me and does a friendships/create on people who are following me that I have yet to follow. This is supposed to be similar to Twitter Karma.
Because I am in the development phase, I have had to do a lot of testing. Here are the steps I take to test. 1. I login in to Twitter via IE and add pick a handful of people to follow. 2. I then go to my desktop app and click on a button and the process starts. 3. The app does what it does and then I have the perfect number of followers and friends (with the exception of followers who are no longer allowed users). By doing this it makes sure I never reach my follower limits. 4. I do it again and again and again and ........ 5. After a while I start getting the 403 errors. So my questions are this. 1. Is there a limit to how many times I can do friendships/destroy or friendships/create? According to the API documentation, neither of these apply towards the rate limit. 2. Is there a limit to the number of times a certain username can login to Twitter in an hour, a day, etc? 3. Is there a limit to the number of times calls like this are made by a certain IP address? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
