Whitelisting only affects your rate limits. It does not remove authentication or change security requirements.
-j On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:09 AM, David Toussaint < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks! I am aware of that switch already but I was not aware that it > is necessary to use any Authentification method if the IP is > whitelisted. > > On 26 Aug., 17:58, Nik Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote: > > Are you using OAuth for your application? If not, the wind-down of > > Basic auth is probably the reason for this decrease - and you'll be > > without Basic Auth at the end of the month > > > > http://countdowntooauth.com/ > > > > -N > > > > On Aug 26, 4:49 pm, David Toussaint <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > My company is offering a regional tweet-monitoring tool (http:// > > > twittercrawl.de) and is collecting all tweets from Germany. > > > > > For doing this we decided to use the REST API and got our IP-Address > > > whitelisted a little while ago. Everything is working fine except that > > > we are getting reduced API-limits on the REST API for some days now. > > > Instead of being allowed to post 20k requests the number is going up > > > and down from 16k to 2.6k to 6k and so on. > > > > > Unfortunately we are really depending on those 20k API requests per > > > hour and are now wondering what could be the reason for that? > > > > > Any help is appreciated! > > > > > Thanks a lot, > > > > > David > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
