Is it possible that you're attempting to log into Twitter with bad credentials? When go back to the Twitter web site are prompted to solve a CAPTCHA or told that your account is temporarily locked?
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 17:58, Dimebrain <daniel.cre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Currently, when I attempt the following API calls I receive the "rate > limit exceeded" error: > > http://twitter.com/statuses/friends.xml > http://twitter.com/statuses/followers/someone.xml > http://twitter.com/friendships/exists.xml?user_a=me&user_b=someone > > However when I request rate limits I am well within limit (I started > making these requests with 100/100). In addition, I I can make other > authenticated API calls under my auth credentials and they run fine > and dock me correctly against my rate limit. This has been occuring > for the last week and a bit. > > No one on this IP address uses Twitter besides me so I can't figure it > has to do with my IP address exceeding limits. Does anyone have any > ideas? Is it just erratic / erroneous messages returned? > > @Dimebrain > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
