Hi Alex, Whitelisting only effects API call rate limiting -- so the answer to your question is "no."
T On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:35 AM, alex urdea <alex.urdea.fi...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks for your answer. > > One more: is the 250 MD limit increased if the application is whitelisted? > Or does the whitelist concernt the rates only? Thanks > > > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Taylor Singletary < > taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> wrote: > >> Rate limits and limits on particular actions are different. We could do >> better in providing a X-FeatureRateLimit header on tweets and DMs and the >> such that have their own issuance limit -- but I can imagine potential >> performance issues with that. >> >> Rate limits provide a ceiling on the amount of API calls you can make. >> Their main purpose is to keep the entire platform running smoothly and to >> not allow any one application to spoil the resource pool for its peers. >> >> Twitter, aside from the API itself, has limits on how many status updates >> and DMs can be sent -- the API just respects the rules of Twitter here. If >> you're concerned you might be hitting the upper limit, for now the best >> thing to do would be to implement a counter in your application and queue >> updates when your counter is full. >> >> A user may issue 1000 tweets per day and 250 DMs. >> >> Taylor Singletary >> Developer Advocate, Twitter >> http://twitter.com/episod >> >> >> >> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:47 AM, alex <alex.urdea.fi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I'm confused: >>> - here it says that there's a limit on direct messages >>> >>> URL: http://help.twitter.com/entries/15364 >>> >>> In the documentation page for this method you have : "API rate limited >>> false": >>> >>> URL: >>> http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-direct_messages >>> new >>> >>> Here it says that "API methods that use HTTP POST to submit data to >>> Twitter, such as statuses/update do not affect rate limits". I guess >>> that this is a POST method that submits data and is not subject to >>> limits? >>> >>> URL: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting >>> >>> Which one is true? >>> >>> Thank you! >>> >> >> >
