At a loss....api.me() taking 26 seconds

[ritter.s...@gmail.com]

Hi everyone,

Sorry if this completely the wrong place to post this, but I'm truly at a loss as to what's happening on my site, and I'm desperate to sort it out.

I'm using tweepy in a Django app, to allow people to sign-up using twitter. For reference, the website is www.wepul.com.

I'm doing the whole oauth song and dance, and by the time I make the final auth_handler.get_access_token and api.me() calls, they take 6 seconds and 25 seconds respectively. 

I had a quick look at the tweepy code and there doesn't seem to be any re-try loops, so I'm not sure what's happening. 

I know twitter rate limits users and applications, but as far as I understand that's black or white, you're either blocked off for 15 minutes or you're good to go. I can't find anything on the twitter API docs that say the response time is throttled.

Happy to share any code (Do I attach it as a file?)

Cheers,

Seb