Being kind to the API - how many requests per minute is acceptable?

[Ben Metcalfe]

I'm building a twitter authority bot that makes numerous calls to
twitter to derive a given user's authority.

I'm about to turn this motha' on in production, and so I'm just
wondering how many calls to the API I can make per minute and without
being considered harmful? I have a whitelisted username and IP, but
would rather know the friendly limits than be suddenly turned off for
being too much.

I am making use of as much caching as I can, but frankly there's a lot
of calls to be made so I'll still need to throttle.

Perhaps Alex/someone at Twitter could let me know.

Thanks
Ben

PS: Do you guys have an IRC chan or something - I *REALLY* don't want
to turn this on and give you problems so would love to have some real
time contact (short of walking around to your offices!).

[Andrew Badera]

I'm certain there's no documentation or archival information readily available for this.

*cough*

[Nicole Simon]

On Jan 2, 10:45 pm, Ben Metcalfe <ben.metca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm building a twitter authority bot that makes numerous calls to
> twitter to derive a given user's authority.

great. can I assume that the non monolingual perspective is
taken care of? ;) as usual happy to throw suggestions out and
play beta tester. I also have some data of a purely German
user base (~5K) which you might test some ideas against.

> PS: Do you guys have an IRC chan or something - I *REALLY* don't want
> to turn this on and give you problems so would love to have some real
> time contact (short of walking around to your offices!).

Oh yes please. I suggest the usual, making a #twitterapi
or so on freenode? #twitter already exists.

Nicole


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[Alex Payne]

Five calls a minute, or three hundred calls per hour, would be ideal.

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