My guess is twitter has a limit on the number of friendship create/destroy calls you can make with a certain period of time. This would prevent bots or such from overloading twitter with too many requests. The fact that you start getting 403 after a while helps confirm there is a limit blocking you. For testing maybe creating multiple test accounts and switch when you hit the limit.
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Dan Kurszewski <dan.kurszew...@gmail.com>wrote: > > 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. > -- Josh
