Yes. On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 04:07, Mario Menti <mme...@gmail.com> wrote: > Alex, > > are status update POSTs still excluded from this limit? > > Mario. > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Alex Payne <a...@twitter.com> wrote: >> >> Up until now we've allowed users and IPs on our whitelist an unlimited >> number of requests per hour. When our whitelist was in the tens and >> low hundreds, this made sense. Now that we have more developers on the >> whitelist than we can reasonably maintain close communication with, we >> need to put a ceiling on the number of requests per hour whitelisted >> accounts and IPs can make. >> >> Starting later this week we'll be limiting those on the whitelist to >> 20,000 requests per hour. Yes, you read that right: twenty THOUSAND >> requests per hour. According to our logs, this accounts for all but >> the very largest consumers of our API. This is essentially a >> preventative measure to ensure that no one API client, even a >> whitelisted account or IP, can consume an inordinate amount of our >> resoures. >> >> If you run one of the services that routinely exceed 20k >> requests/hour, please get in contact with us (a...@twitter.com) as soon >> as possible. Chances are good that you'll simply need to slow your >> crawl rates, implement more caching on your end, and limit requests to >> only active accounts. We're happy to work with you to find solutions. >> >> -- >> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. >> http://twitter.com/al3x > >
-- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
