Whitelisted and calls left, but still says Rate Limit Exceeded?

[Roy Rodenstein]

Hi all, I'm new to Twitter API dev, working on a mashup with LinkedIn
to find your LI network on Twitter.

I am only doing a couple of Twitter calls:
- friends/ids, one per app run
- user search w/limit of 5 results, about 20 per app run (tho this
will rise when I'm done testing)

So pretty limited API calls right now. Also, I got my @how2startup
account whitelisted (don't have a static IP yet so can't get IP
whitelisted I assume), and as you can see below from output of
rate_limit_status run from my server, I have plenty of API calls left.
And yet I am still getting Rate Limit Exceeded error.

I must be missing something really obvious, or really tricky. Is there
some other IP (the local browser?) that is getting rate limited?
Thanks for any tips! Best, Roy

IP Address Rate Limit (Unauthenticated call to rate_limit_status)
<hash>
<reset-time type="datetime">2010-03-08T09:27:04+00:00</reset-time>
<remaining-hits type="integer">140</remaining-hits>
<hourly-limit type="integer">150</hourly-limit>
<reset-time-in-seconds type="integer">1268040424</reset-time-in-
seconds>
</hash>

how2startup Address Rate Limit (Authenticated call to
rate_limit_status)
<hash>
<remaining-hits type="integer">19713</remaining-hits>
<reset-time type="datetime">2010-03-08T10:05:25+00:00</reset-time>
<hourly-limit type="integer">20000</hourly-limit>
<reset-time-in-seconds type="integer">1268042725</reset-time-in-
seconds>
</hash>

[Raffi Krikorian]

hi!

are you making calls to api.twitter.com's rate_limit_status?  if so, there is a bug in it that we're addressing.

--
Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Team
http://twitter.com/raffi

[Roy Rodenstein]

Hi Raffi,

Correct.

Although per my description below, I still don't see how I would be
doing 20,000 calls (or even 150) that quickly.

Thanks,
Roy