As I posted in another thread [1], here is information from our help center [2] to hopefully clarify this: - By default, Twitter accounts can send 250 DMs per day. - Accounts (not IPs and not apps) that are on the REST whitelist can send up to 10,000 DMs per day
Taylor's point about the limit being account-based and not application- based is important to note. Brian Sutorius [1] http://bit.ly/9DyGDB [2] http://help.twitter.com/entries/160385 On May 12, 9:08 am, Taylor Singletary <[email protected]> wrote: > To my knowledge (and I might be wrong, but this is what I understand to be > true): > > - there is a limit of 250 DMs per day for a user account, blanketly > applied. Whitelisting for an application has no effect on this limit. This > isn't an API limit. It's a limit for a Twitter user. A twitter user could > contribute to their allocation by using the website or an API client. > > Taylor Singletary > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/episod > > > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Mo <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm trying to find a reliable source for whitelist limits for Direct > > Messaging. I looked through the "direct messaging limits and best > > practices for individual services?" thread -http://bit.ly/cLVv1Qbut > > there weren't any authoritative descriptions of whitelist limits. > > > What I'm looking for is: > > > 1. DMs allowed per user per hour, and per day - (Where user is defined > > as someone using an app). > > 2. DMs allowed per app per hour, and per day > > > I saw that Doug Williams had said that whitelisted users get 5000 DMs > > per day, but didn't specify whether that was an app total or a total > > for a random user using an app for DMs. The hourly limit for > > whitelisted apps wasn't specified at all. > > > -Mo > >http://www.pay4tweet.com
