1) When will http://apiwiki.twitter.com/HTTP-Response-Codes-and-Errors be updated? (2) How does 420 differ from 400?
On Jan 23, 4:21 pm, Wilhelm Bierbaum <[email protected]> wrote: > In accordance with our previous announcement, we have completed the change > to Search API rate limiting response code. This change allows downstream > systems to more appropriately respond to rate limiting. The original > announcement follows: > > We're changing the response code sent back by the Search API when the > rate limit has been exceeded. At present, it is impossible to > distinguish rate limit responses from other error conditions in > responses from the Search API -- this is what we're trying to fix. > > Starting Monday, January 18th, 2010 the Search API will respond > with error code 420 in the event that the number of requests you have > made exceeds the quota afforded by your assigned rate limit. > > If you have any questions, please feel free to post them on > twitter-development-talk. > > Thanks!
