DT : http://dev.twitter.com/pages/rate-limiting#rest
"API methods which are not directly rate limited are still subject to organic, unpublished limits. This includes actions like publishing status updates, direct messages, follow/unfollow actions, etc. These Twitter Limits<http://support.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15364> are described on our help site" I think this says it all. --Regards, Denzil On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:26 PM, dt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
