Why are 400, 403 and 503 valid response codes to signify that a call
is being rate limited?  Was there a dart board involved?

   * 400 Bad Request: The request was invalid.  An accompanying error
message will explain why. This is the status code will be returned
during rate limiting.
   * 403 Forbidden: The request is understood, but it has been
refused.  An accompanying error message will explain why. This code is
used when requests are being denied due to update limits.
   * 503 Service Unavailable: The Twitter servers are up, but
overloaded with requests. Try again later. The search and trend
methods use this to indicate when you are being rate limited.

http://apiwiki.twitter.com/HTTP-Response-Codes-and-Errors

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