API Performance Tanking

[Dewald Pretorius]

On Wednesday afternoon/evening the 502s and connection refuses have
been coming thick and fast, much worse than earlier in the week.

When can we expect to see an improvement instead of a worsening of the
API's performance?

Dewald

[PJB]

From my testing, SOME api calls go through just fine (e.g., grabbing
DMs). OTHERS are particularly slow (e.g., create friend).

From the rumours I have heard, Twitter is delegating performance to
more "benign" calls, and degrading performance for other calls more
closely associated with "spam" activities. I hope this is not true.

[PJB]

I should add that that rumour is probably pure speculation. But it
does strike me as odd that some calls work perfectly fine, while
others are significantly delayed.

Possibly the degradation is due to the deals Twitter struck today with
Google and Microsoft's Bing? Presumably these behemoths are eating up
significant API resources.

[Brian Smith]

PJB wrote:
> > On Oct 21, 8:01 pm, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday afternoon/evening the 502s and connection refuses have
> > > been coming thick and fast, much worse than earlier in the week.
> >
> > > When can we expect to see an improvement instead of a worsening of
> > > the API's performance?

The website has been giving me frequent "Twitter is over capacity" errors
for two or three days now, and the API seems to have had a similar
degradation during that same period. The website availability is almost as
bad as it was during the DoS from a month or so ago.

Regards,
Brian