phlegon's dashboard

johnzai replied on July 06, 2008 18:58 to the question "Twitter's SMS phone numbers" in Twitter:

Yes its verified. I have twitter responding fine when text 'help'. But when I try updating my twitter account, nothing shows up. Even tried texting to 'get biz' & 'whois krissy', both worked but just when i 'reply' with an sms. Nothing shows up on my twitter page.

A comment on the question "Twitter's SMS phone numbers" in Twitter:

Hello. Is your phone verified? You can check if it is at http://twitter.com/devices – mdy, on July 06, 2008 12:06

johnzai replied on July 06, 2008 11:39 to the question "Twitter's SMS phone numbers" in Twitter:

I am from vancouver, bc. network: fido. i've tried texting to 21212 but twitter won't update. any steps i missed?

joanrolling85 replied on June 22, 2008 16:32 to the problem "Web not posting tweets from people I follow" in Twitter:

solved.

phlegon replied on June 11, 2008 20:27 to the question "Tweet Limit Exceeded" in Twitter:

UPDATE: As completely odd as this is, after changing my password yet again to no avail, I finally did lower the number of requests per hour and just left Twhirl on . . . and it eventually worked! I don't know why one request per day was being denied, and then lowering the limit allowed 30 per hour, but that's what happened. I haven't tried Netvibes again yet, partially because I don't really use Netvibes much anymore for anything. :D

corwin replied on June 10, 2008 13:40 to the question "Tweet Limit Exceeded" in Twitter:

I've been having this problem with any twitter client I've tried for the last couple of weeks now. I've throttled the requests down to the very lowest level to no avail. I was offline the whole weekend, and still came in yesterday and was immediately given the limit exceeded message. I tried changing my password, and that made no difference at all.

Jason Goldman replied on June 06, 2008 01:50 to the problem "API Limit Exceeded in Twhirl, Twitterific, etc." in Twitter:

We have recently lowered the API request limit to 30 per hour as noted on status.twitter.com.

For clients like Twitterrific, this means you should reconfigure so that it does not refresh more than once every 2 minutes.

If you are using more than one client, you should make sure than in total they do not exceed 30 requests per hour.

GreenSmith replied on May 28, 2008 00:59 to the question "Tweet Limit Exceeded" in Twitter:

@phlegon hmm, not sure what to tell you. You've changed it and restarted, or just changed it? Perhaps restarting Twhirl would help...What level did you set it at? Lower then 30?

A comment on the question "Tweet Limit Exceeded" in Twitter:

@GreenSmith That would only help if this were a genuine exceeding of the limit. After 24+ hours of inactivity, it STILL says that the limit has been exceeded. I don't receive a single update--the very first request that Twhirl sends is rejected. I could set it as low as it will go and it wouldn't help. :( – phlegon, on May 28, 2008 00:08

GreenSmith replied on May 27, 2008 21:02 to the question "Tweet Limit Exceeded" in Twitter:

@phlegon did you change your network settings on Twhirl? Changing them to 30 for me has gone from having the exact same problem you're mentioning, to none. Depending on your Twitter use, you can easilly tweak how often you get @s DMs, and Tweets each within that 30 per hour limit. Since DMs go to your email, you could make those the least frequent, and get the others quite frequently.

phlegon replied on May 27, 2008 20:22 to the question "Tweet Limit Exceeded" in Twitter:

Well I, for one, am done trying to figure this out. NOTHING has my password except Twhirl. I start Twhirl about once a day, and it starts up saying that the limit has been exceeded, even though no attempt has been made for at least 24 hours. This is a problem on Twitter's end.

mdy replied on May 27, 2008 07:07 to the question "Tweet Limit Exceeded" in Twitter:

I don't think Friendfeed counts against the API limit if you have a public Twitter account. Unless things have changed since I last looked at Friendfeed, you can import tweets from a public Twitter account into Friendfeed by just providing a user name, no password.

The Twitter API documentation says that only "authenticated requests" (which I understand to mean that we have to login successfully with our password) are counted against the API limit.

Since Friendfeed doesn't ask us for our password, I believe it doesn't eat up our rate limit.

Brons replied on May 27, 2008 06:56 to the question "Tweet Limit Exceeded" in Twitter:

That's still not good enough for me. I deleted mt Friendfeed entry and my Facebook app. I had the Spaz frequency down to every6 minutes and fr the first time in 3 days brought up spaz and immediately got the rror. I changed my password, and only Spaz has it.

It still doesn't work. Something has gotta be broken here.

A comment on the question "Tweet Limit Exceeded" in Twitter:

Thanks, GreenSmith! 8-) – mdy, on May 27, 2008 06:35

GreenSmith replied on May 27, 2008 05:25 to the question "Tweet Limit Exceeded" in Twitter:

Actually @mdy, that page is helpful to at least have a reference for what they current limit is. I switched to 30 per hour on Twhirl, FF still gets my tweets, and all is fine. This post lays it out very clearly for those needing to adjust to this changed API req limit: http://willfjohnston.com/2008/05/26/t...

mdy replied on May 27, 2008 03:22 to the question "Tweet Limit Exceeded" in Twitter:

D'oh! Mea culpa! I misunderstood when I read the thread about the rate_limit.

That API call actually returns the current API limit for Twitter. It's usually 70 per hour, but for various reasons, Twitter may lower the limit temporarily. That API call lets the third-party app developers check if the API limit has changed.

Again, sorry for contributing to the confusion.

Jeff replied on May 27, 2008 01:22 to the question "Tweet Limit Exceeded" in Twitter:

Doesn't look like that feature is functioning yet. I restarted Twhirl, it ran for two rounds of updates ( 12 minutes = 6 API hits) and says I've exceded the limit AGAIN. Checked and this says I still have 30 requests remaining.

mdy replied on May 27, 2008 01:04 to the question "Tweet Limit Exceeded" in Twitter:

I think it will just be a matter of time before the various 3rd-party apps add a feature where you can see what's left of your rate limit because that just became available via the API.

You can try it for yourselves by going to this link:
http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit...

Jeff replied on May 27, 2008 00:50 to the question "Tweet Limit Exceeded" in Twitter:

I'll chime in with a "me too". I have ONLY Twhirl accessing the API at this time and nothing I've done keeps it from timing out. I even have it turned down to 30 requests an hour as I heard thats what they turned the API down to. It will open up, run for a bit ok, then time right back out again.

A comment on the question "Tweet Limit Exceeded" in Twitter:

Ah, I see the Twitter app is already disabled. FriendFeed is linked up to Facebook as well. I'll turn that off, and Twitter w/in Friendfeed. But if there's something unusual with Twitter happening right now that has relevance to this, please let me know, thanks. – GreenSmith, on May 26, 2008 21:16