I'm not sure what you mean - our REST whitelist only accepts usernames and IP addresses as whitelistable entities. Applications don't send direct messages, users do; the DM limit is on a per-user basis.
Brian On May 12, 1:27 pm, Mo <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Brian and Taylor. This definitely adds some clarification. > There is one last thing, though. > > Brian, you mentioned that the limits you specified were NOT for IPs > and apps. What would be the DM limit for a whitelisted app? > > I can't find that explicitly stated in any of the references. > > On May 12, 12:31 pm, Brian Sutorius <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 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
