[twitter-dev] Re: Search API rate limit on some keywords

2011-02-01 Thread @IDisposable
have observed that sometimes some of the keywords get a 420 code? Any ideas why is this happening? You get a 420 NOT USED when a search term hasn't been used recently where the recently is whatever small timeframe (sometimes 7 days, often less) is currently available in the search index. I get

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API rate limit on some keywords

2011-02-01 Thread zaver
Thanks for the reply. So as i understand it i am not being rate limited, it just doesn't find any results to return for the specific keywords. In that case should i wait for the amount of time specified on the Retry-after field to make a new search? If i don't wait will that lead to my ip getting