According to the current docs, the users/profile_image path is not currently rate limited: http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/profile_image/:screen_name
But when I access this method, I'm sometimes getting rate limit errors: {"error":"Rate limit exceeded. Clients may not make more than 150 requests per hour.","request":"\/1\/users\/profile_image\/tw.json? size=bigger"} Has this policy been updated, and the docs are behind? (I work in a place where a single IP is shared for the whole building, so rate limits are exceeded a lot of the time when I'm testing) -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk