This might be anecdotal but I notice that it occurs more often for these methods when I request methods in quick succession. Today while developing my application I noticed that I sent one "get followers" request which returned, and then I sent the identical call again and it failed due to rate limit. I sent a call to test my rate limit and it reported back 99/100. Right after that my TwitterFox client plugin I'm using, also under the same auth, failed due to "rate limit". I checked my rate limit again and it reported back 99/100.
On Jan 22, 2:23 am, Alex Payne <a...@twitter.com> wrote: > 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
