Banned For 1000s of friendship deletes/hr

[shiplu]

Hello,


Recently my IP was banned for "1000s of friendship deletes/hr".

friendship/delete method is a POST call. It should not have any limit.

All the calls were authenticated. So It should not hit any IP limit if its set.

Now It seems it hits a hidden limit. Twitter mentioned "1000s". So I
am still in dark. Still dont know what the exact number is.

Any idea how do I avoid such limit?


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[Mark McBride]

This isn't a rate limiting issue, it's an abuse issue. What were you
doing that required 1000s of friendship deletes/hour?

---Mark

[shiplu]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Mark McBride <mmcb...@twitter.com> wrote:
> This isn't a rate limiting issue, it's an abuse issue.  What were you
> doing that required 1000s of friendship deletes/hour?
>

Its an app where user requests to delete friends of his choice. All
gets deleted on the fly.
It has almost 100 to 200 user. If everyone requests to delete at least
20-50 user, total number of friendship/destroy requests can range from
2000-10000. Now, And when my cron runs for the first time it gets
blocked!!

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[Mark McBride]

Contact susp...@twitter.com and explain the nature of your
application. If it is legitimate use it shouldn't be difficult to get
reinstated.

---Mark

[shiplu]

I contacted a...@twitter.com. They told me to modify the app so that
its hitting rate gets reduced. I think few sleep()s will slow it down.
But I want to know how these are avoided normally by others?
Any common best practice?