Hey, This endpoint has always been rate limited so this is an error in the docs. We have some updates to the docs coming out soon which will correct that.
Best, @themattharris <https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=themattharris> Developer Advocate, Twitter On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:56 AM, 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
