I believe sometimes the IP address can be user-based, even for white- listed IPs. E.G., if the user himself has a whitelisted IP.
On Aug 10, 7:57 pm, Dewald Pretorius <[email protected]> wrote: > Jim, > > I don't know exactly what you're looking at and how you get to that > answer. > > My system is making thousands of GET calls per hour, and I can see how > X-RateLimit-Remaining is decrementing regardless of which Twitter user > credentials are used. > > So, on my side I am seeing solid evidence that the rate limit is per > IP address only and not per user. > > Dewald > > On Aug 10, 11:26 pm, "jim.renkel" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hmmm! We seem to have conflicting evidence here! > > > I just (again) verified that twxlate.com is getting 20k requests per > > hour per user. > > > How long ago was it that Alex and other API team members made the > > recommendation that you mentioned? Is it possible that twitter changed > > policy since then? > > > Either way, I agree that we now need a very clear affirmation from > > twitter as to the policy. > > > I sure hope I don't have to eat my words! :-) > > > Jim > > > On Aug 10, 9:08 pm, Dewald Pretorius <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Aug 10, 11:02 pm, "jim.renkel" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > My logic is now: "Ifratelimiting is not peruser, then all users of > > > > anIPaddress will share one pool of20krequests per hour. If a site > > > > has a 1,000 users at one time, then eachuserwill get an average of > > > > 20 requests per hour. This is clearly not enough to do much useful. > > > > Jim, > > > > That is why Alex and other API team members have recommended in the > > > past that you get and use additional white-listedIPaddresses, when > > > 20,000 requests per hour perIPaddress is not sufficient to service > > > youruserbase. > > > > At TweetLater I employ several white-listedIPaddresses to cover the > > > needs of my users. > > > > Dewald
