Hi Taylor, This is different than what Doug Williams stated in this post - http://bit.ly/cLVv1Q
"Whitelisted users have a direct messaging limit of 5K messages per day." What I'm still not clear on, though, is how "user" is being defined. Is the user the app owner or the someone using the app? Also, is 5K DMs a day stated by Doug correct or is it 250 DMs? Apparently Alex and I posted essentially the same request 5 minutes apart. Answering to either this message or to my other post would be much appreciated. -Mo http://www.pay4tweet.com On May 12, 8:39 am, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> wrote: > 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! > >
