Hello Chad,

Can you confirm that this is not the case for AWS elastic IPs which
had been previously whitelisted by Twitter?

Thanks,
Darren

On Aug 21, 4:35 pm, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have replied to Jud off-list, but for everyone's benefit we'd like
> to reiterate that AWS and GAE are shared resources and therefore share
> the rate limit across applications. A dedicated IP and unique UA will
> guarantee the maximum API limits. There are several cheap and reliable
> VPS hosting services available which can provide a dedicated IP
> address and full control over the server.
>
> Thanks,
> -Chad
>
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Jud<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I've got a python app running on Google App Engine (appspot hosted)
> > that querieshttp://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=for simple
> > queries (e.g. "foo OR bar"), and it's being severely throttled (e.g.
> > can't get a successful request through (response 200 w/ data) more
> > than a couple of times per _hour_).
>
> > - I'm setting the UA string to something unique/identifiable (e.g. my
> > company name)
> > - I'm respecting the retry-after header coming back when I see a 503
> > (average retry-after duration is ~750)
> > - GAE turns the IP address behind the app over ~ every 6 hours
> > - app hits tries to hit search.twitter.com every 5 minutes.
>
> > I've successfully polled the endpoint at much higher rates (in
> > completely different IP address ranges) in the past, without issue.
> > Unclear what's going on. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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