Re: Rate Limit For Mass POSTs

2008-10-29 Thread Alex Payne

For one, you'll need to get your account whitelisted.  POST requests
aren't rate limited as a rule, but there are some rules around the
number updates and direct messages one can send per day that apply
whether you're using the API or the web site.  Getting whitelisted
lifts those limits.

Beyond that, feel free to POST either serially or in parallel.  Five
at a time sounds perfectly reasonable.

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Tony Stubblebine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I'm building an app for managing large twitter accounts and have two
 desires. One, to be able to mass-follow a selection of people who are
 following me. Two, to send direct messages to all followers or to
 slices of my followers. These may bring up etiquette/user-expectation/
 spam issues, but first I want to get a very specific RATE limiting
 question answered.

 The documentation says that POST requests are not limited. My test
 account has 4900 followers and 4600 unfollowed followers. Can I DM
 them in parallel? Serially? Five at a time? What's the polite thing to
 do here?

 Thanks,
 Tony
 http://www.stubbleblog.com
 http://www.crowdvine.com





-- 
Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.
http://twitter.com/al3x


Re: Rate Limit For Mass POSTs

2008-10-29 Thread Tony Stubblebine

Thanks Alex,

What's the limit on DMs per day and is that something that can be
whitelisted by IP?

I guess whitelisting by IP wouldn't make much sense in a general case.
The project I'm working on is going to live on the web and live both
inside and outside of CrowdVine. For the inside CrowdVine part, it's
for paying conferences doing things like sending updates when a
session changes rooms. I can vouch for them. But for general usage, I
wouldn't want to open up a loophole.

Thx,
Tony

On Oct 29, 5:17 pm, Alex Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 For one, you'll need to get your account whitelisted.  POST requests
 aren't rate limited as a rule, but there are some rules around the
 number updates and direct messages one can send per day that apply
 whether you're using the API or the web site.  Getting whitelisted
 lifts those limits.

 Beyond that, feel free to POST either serially or in parallel.  Five
 at a time sounds perfectly reasonable.

 On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Tony Stubblebine



 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I'm building an app for managing large twitter accounts and have two
  desires. One, to be able to mass-follow a selection of people who are
  following me. Two, to send direct messages to all followers or to
  slices of my followers. These may bring up etiquette/user-expectation/
  spam issues, but first I want to get a very specific RATE limiting
  question answered.

  The documentation says that POST requests are not limited. My test
  account has 4900 followers and 4600 unfollowed followers. Can I DM
  them in parallel? Serially? Five at a time? What's the polite thing to
  do here?

  Thanks,
  Tony
 http://www.stubbleblog.com
 http://www.crowdvine.com

 --
 Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x