[twitter-dev] Re: Difference between Authenticated and Unauthenticated Call

2010-11-20 Thread Red_Eyes
You can make a call to search, for example, both authenticated and unauthenticated. Search uses a different rate limiting system to most other API calls. You have your assumption the wrong way round, though. When you are authenticated, generally you will get around 350 API calls per hour allowed. W

[twitter-dev] Re: Difference between Authenticated and Unauthenticated Call

2010-11-17 Thread @Red_Eyes
Sending a Tweet does not count against your rate limit of 350 per hour. However, there are a mximum number of Tweets you can make from an account at 1000 per day. There are also limits on how many Tweets you can send per hour and also how many you could do over several minutes. I'm not sure if thes

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Difference between Authenticated and Unauthenticated Call

2010-11-16 Thread ganesh kumar
Thank you very much.. yes you understood my exact requirement. It is said that POST api calls are not rate limited.. sending tweets is a POST call. so it should not be rate limited. Am I right? What is the api call to post a tweet? I think "POST statuses/update" is used to post a tweet and it is no

[twitter-dev] Re: Difference between Authenticated and Unauthenticated Call

2010-11-16 Thread @Red_Eyes
If I understand you correctly, you want to build in some sort of interface into your site to allow users to Tweet from it under their own accounts. You would use oAuth to set up the credentials. Establishing these credentials would not count towards the rate limit as it is done through the Twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: Difference between Authenticated and Unauthenticated Call

2010-11-16 Thread Ganesh Peria
Thanks for the reply. Need some more clarification. My web application enable user to tweet in their twitter accounts. A user can tweet after he is logged in and authorizes my app. So asking login credentials and autorizing my application requires some api calls. Will these be counted under rate l