Hi Twitter API folks, Over the last few months, there's been some big new features to the API to match the Twitter.com feature set. Whilst that's awesome for third-party developers and users alike, the rate limit has remained the same. Looking back over the documentation, the last increase was in June of this year, from 100 requests per 60 minute window to 150 requests - long before the lists or retweet features became available.
Whilst I'm *fully* aware that we (as a developer community) can minimise the number of calls to the API, with new features being added - and the related query-chaining that may be needed to provide folks with an experience such as they're used to on the Twitter Web site with the bells and whistles - are there any plans to increase the rate limit for applications? I should just add: this is in no way a whiny post at the rate limiting that's currently in effect. We're not hearing of Socialite hitting the rate limit a great deal (as we're deliberately refreshing Lists every third refresh to preserve API calls) - I'm just posting to see what the Twitter API team's thoughts are :) Cheers, Nik --- Nik Fletcher Support / QA Manager Realmac Software
