If you do the math, just the one account doing 25 updates ever half hour(50 updates on hour) * 24 hours, that's 1200 updates a day. So it seems pretty obvious that you are hitting that 1000 update limit with just that one account.
On Oct 11, 2009, at 10:54 AM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: I recall there being a rolling hourly limit. Not sure the details on it though. Abraham On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:14, HardipSingh <mr.hardip.si...@gmail.com>wrote: > > We launched some code yesterday that tweets jobs out of our database. > We have multiple accounts that are tweeting. Most of the accounts > only tweet one tweet every 1/2 hour. We have one account, however; > that tweets 25-50 tweets every 1/2 hour. After a few runs on the > account that tweets 25-50, we got the following error from the web > service. > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <hash> > <request>/statuses/update.xml</request> > <error>User is over daily status update limit.</error> > </hash> > > My understanding is that a user can post 1000 updates per day from any > device. We are currently nowhere near 1000 tweets, so I'm curious why > I'm getting this error. > > I also attempted to post a tweet manually from the web interface and > got an error saying.. > > "You are over the status update limit. Please wait a few hours and try > again." > > So by this, I'm guessing it has nothing to do w/ the interface we are > using to post updates. > > Also, this says to wait "a few hours", but my understanding was the > update limit was a daily limit. > > After looking closer at my log files, it looks like we are able to > post again after a few hours, and that this is not a 24 hour limit. > > I'm trying to use the account rate_limit_status web service to look at > my limits, but the library I am using (twitter4j) looks to have a > reporting bug in it that prevents me from getting the correct stats. > I'm working on writing a raw client do the call outside of the > twitter4j library to see if i can get these stats. > > Any thoughts on what might be going on here? Am I misreading > something on your wiki page that talks about rate limits? > > Here are the resources I am using.. > > http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting > http://help.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15364 > > Thanks in advance for your help. -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham http://web608.org/geeks/abraham/blogs/2009/10/03/win-google-wave-invite This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, Wisconsin, United States
