I'm going to say it is a good way to get your app/IP permanently banned from Twitter.
Abraham 2009/8/9 avail4one <avail4...@gmail.com> > I think it's ok to go for it, what does everyone else think? > > > > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Tim Haines <tmhai...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Hi there, >> >> This is probably a very dumb question, but I thought I'd ask it >> anyway. >> >> I run http://favstar.fm, and I can't call the API more than 60 or so >> times an hour at the moment (or something in that region). My worthy >> competitor http://favotter.matope.com remains uneffected though, and >> has been able to continue his fav crawling uninterrupted. >> >> Would it be okay to start taking a peek at some of the more popular >> user's pages on twitter.com, and crawl their favorites from there >> rather than using the api? I guess this assumes my IP wouldn't get >> blocked as it seems to be by the API. >> >> Dumb question right? Curious to hear. >> >> Tim. >> >> >> > > > -- > \./'\./ /'\ \ ]. /'\./'\ /'\ /'\./ > -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
