I think I understand this better now and have applied for a white listed IP.
Thanks, rahul On Sep 10, 4:31 pm, Mytweetopics <monsoon....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Our app has been using twitter RSS for a while for fetching status > updates of users. > (e.g.http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/serenity.atom). Its worked > fine. But in the last couple of days we are getting more and more > error 400 when we do the HTTP get on the ATOM URL. The IP of the > machine that is making the requests is 208.96.18.86. We don't poll > for a given user's feed more than once an hour. > > Are ATOM requests throttled whereas API requests are not by twitter? > Is this issue arising because we are using the ATOM based API and not > the "formal Twitter API"? > > Any help would be much appreciated. > > Regards, > rahul