Twitter API temporary rate limit

[jack]

Hey all,

We're taking the rate limit down from 30 requests per hour to 20
requests per hour to help the system with load. We may have to take
it down further in the next 2 hours. We aim to have it back up to
normal rates later in the day.

Thanks for your patience,
Jack.

[jack]

Hello all,

We're going to take it down to 10 now. We'll keep everyone updated
here.

Jack.

[Alex Payne]

Now that the keynote is over, we're pushing the rate limit back up to
20. We'll try to get it higher throughout the day, until we're back
to 70.

--
Alex Payne
http://twitter.com/al3x

[Dossy Shiobara]

On 2008.06.09, jack <jack...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We're going to take it down to 10 now. We'll keep everyone updated
> here.

I just put in a whitelisting request, but unfortunately it seems that
it's a per-user whitelist, not per application.

Can you also apply a whitelist based on source IP making the request,
regardless of the user authenticating?

Please? Help? Twitter Karma users around the world would be very
appreciative.

--
Dossy Shiobara | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/
Panoptic Computer Network | http://panoptic.com/
"He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)

[Alex Payne]

Unfortunately, we have no plans to change our whitelisting policy at present.

--
Alex Payne
http://twitter.com/al3x

[Alex Payne]

We're now back to 30 and holding steady. Still got our eyes on the 70
prize in the next 24 hours or so.

[whaz...@gmail.com]

Is there a resource that will tell us the current limit? I added the
since parameter to all my scripts to lower the data overhead a bit,
but I'm still hoping to be able to run my update script every minuet
via cron. If there was a way in the API or a website that told the
current rate limit, i may be able to incorporate that into the script
and make it update less frequently... Just thinking out loud.

P.s. I love twitter :-)

On Jun 9, 6:40 pm, "Alex Payne" <a...@twitter.com> wrote:
> We're now back to 30 and holding steady. Still got our eyes on the 70
> prize in the next 24 hours or so.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Alex Payne <a...@twitter.com> wrote:
> > Unfortunately, we have no plans to change our whitelisting policy at present.
>
> > On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Dossy Shiobara <do...@panoptic.com> wrote:
>

[Kee Hinckley]

On Jun 10, 2008, at 11:56 PM, whaz...@gmail.com wrote:
> Is there a resource that will tell us the current limit? I added the

rate_limit: http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.json
Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:14:15 GMT, 200, OK
30.346143 seconds
$VAR1 = {
'remaining_hits' => 50
};

[whaz...@gmail.com]

OHHHHHHH. I saw that on the API page, but it never worked. It did not
occur to me to add the extension i wanted :-\.
/smacks forehead

On Jun 11, 2:15 am, Kee Hinckley <naz...@somewhere.com> wrote: