There are several projects in the pipeline to help with rate limiting issues.
-John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Nik Fletcher <nik.fletc...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
