The rate limit on DMs isn't something we share publicly, as it's subject to change. Not trying to be secretive, we just don't want people coding around one particular value only to have it be raised or lowered as is necessary to combat spam and abusive usage of our service.
We don't lift the DM rate limit based on IP, but rather on username. So if we whitelist your account, that account will be able to send unlimited DMs. On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Tony Stubblebine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
