i believe the dm limit is 250 per day. http://help.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15364
Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom Dewald Pretorius wrote: > Are you sending the news items to your users via DMs? > > If so, your service will be severely restricted by the 1,000 DMs per > day limit. > > Dewald > > On Aug 28, 10:37 pm, bosher <bhellm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> My Twitter service just launched today -http://tweetmenews.com/ >> >> After having a surge in users joining the site, I'm now receiving the >> following error messages: >> >> 403:The request is understood, but it has been refused. An >> accompanying error message will explain why. >> <request>/direct_messages/new.xml</request> >> <error>You cannot send messages to users who are not following you.</ >> error> >> >> I manually checked that the users I'm getting this error for are in >> fact following following the service's Twitter >> Account:http://twitter.com/TweetMeNews >> >> Can someone offer some ideas on why this is suddenly happening? This >> is obvious not ideal for day 1. >> >> Thanks >>
