Why not request whitelisting? You'll be able to make 20,000 requests
per hour. Provided you have a legitimate application, there's no
reason why you wouldn't be whitelisted, and it generally seems to
happen pretty quickly.
http://twitter.com/help/request_whitelisting
See more under "Whitelisting":
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting
Good luck!
Richard
On Oct 4, 3:08 am, Andrew McCloud <and...@amccloud.com> wrote:
> If possible can I get the rate limit lifted temporarily for few
> thousand request? the account is flockwith and the ip is 67.23.46.141
>
> On Oct 3, 6:34 pm, Andrew McCloud <and...@amccloud.com> wrote:
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> > Is it possible to lookup lots of user_ids from screenames without
> > being rate limited? I'm doing a 1 time import into our db and need to
> > get it done asap.
