Matt : Can you also clear the air on what the snippet from the Twitter docs mean? I read it as there are no non-rate limited methods.
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"API methods which are not directly rate limited are still subject to organic, unpublished limits.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" --Regards, Denzil On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Matt Harris <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > -- 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
