Facing problem with rate-limit.

[Rushikesh Bhanage]

Hi ,

We are building a twitter application which needs to collect all the followers of the user to show him results. Now when we looked at following user's:

user                     Followers
ev -                      1,172,553 
aplusk -                4,627,964 
Kim Kardashian -  3,144,680 

 such users through our application it turns out 20,000 calls per white-listed IP without breaking operation, are not sufficient to collect all the followers of these users. Because every cursor id gives only 100 follower's data which means 20,000 calls are not sufficient for some users with extensive followers.

Eagerly looking for solution,
Thank you.

Regards,
Rushikesh.

[Abraham Williams]

If you make the requests authenticated as your users each one will have 20k hits per hour. 

"Each whitelisted entity, whether an account or IP address, is allowed 20000 requests per hour. This means that two authenticated users using the same IP address would each get 20000 requests per hour." - http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting

Depending on your application you can cache all the user objects and then use the Social Graph APIs to find missing profiles.

Abraham

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[Rushikesh Bhanage]

Hi,

Thank you for the reply. I understand what you are saying, but is it possible to get more than one user account whitelisted? When I looked at the whitelisting form, it suggests to add IPs and not user accounts.

Let me know please,
Thank you.

[Abraham Williams]

Probably. But the text I referenced means each non-whitelisted account on a whitelisted IP gets 20k/hour.

Abraham