You really shouldn't be planning for the case where every single Twitter user uses your application ;-) When you get to 100 users, you request whitelisting. When you get to 20000 users, your server will have a problem handling all the information and you'll need to get a second server anyway.
Tom On 9/20/10 5:17 PM, Vijay wrote: > I am not sure about 20k, but 150 is miniscule. > If I am collecting stats on a bunch of users every hour for example, I > can only > collect on 150 users, which is tiny, compared to 140 million users > Twitter has. > > How do the big companies manage? For example, twittercounter claims to > have stats on 10 million users...that is a LOT of data. > > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Tom van der Woerdt <i...@tvdw.eu > <mailto:i...@tvdw.eu>> wrote: > > 20k per IP is a lot. It means that a server should make more than 5 > requests per second to hit the limit, which is a lot. > > About your options: no idea. Just make sure to use the proper functions > and try not to hit the limits? :-) 150 is a lot as well, most Desktop > clients don't hit it (didn't, until Lists came ^^). > > Tom > > > On 9/20/10 4:56 PM, Vijay wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Newbie question, so please bear with me. > > > > I am experimenting with twitter API, but quickly found myself hitting > > the rate limit > > (150 without authentication, correct?) > > > > How do the big sites get over the rate limit (tweetstats, > twittercounter > > etc)? > > Twitter's documentation says they can white list IPs, but would still > > allow only > > 20k requests per hour. Also, they would only white list apps that are > > already in > > production. So if I just want to experiment / learn, this > wouldn't work. > > > > What are my options? There is no way I can have multiple IPs. > > > > Vijay. > > > > -- > > 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 > > > -- > 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
