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API hour limit hit w/under 50 tweets?!
I just hit a twitter hour limit but have sent under 50 updates in the hour - can you explain what's going on??? thnx
I’m flummoxed, annoyed
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Inappropriate?Hi Lynn. The API limit doesn't count the number of updates that we've made. Instead, it counts the number of times we retrieve (or GET) our home timeline, Mentions, and DMs.
There's a page on Twitter's API wiki that documents this:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting
Rate limiting only applies to methods that request information with the HTTP GET command.
API methods that use HTTP POST to submit data to Twitter, such as statuses/update do not affect rate limits. Additionally, requests to account/rate_limit_status are not charged to a limit. These unlimited methods are still subject to daily update and follower limits to promote healthy use and discourage spam.
Writing new tweets are done via the HTTP POST command, which as you can see above, does not affect the rate limit.
If the third-party application gives you a way to control the number of times your timeline is refreshed in the app, I suggest lowering the request frequency so that the total requests per hour for home, Mentions, and @replies combined stays below 100.
