Martin, This sounds like issue 795 [1]. When you get the 200, are you sending the same (duplicate) text as the last successful update? If so, this is the expected behavior.
However, if you are sending new (non duplicate) text and you are hitting the update limit, you should be receiving a HTTP 403 response code. Can you specify exactly what you are doing so we can debug? 1. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=795 Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Martin Omander <moman...@google.com> wrote: > > Hi there, > > Earlier today I ran afoul of the rate limit for updates through the > API. But no error was returned to my app. To make sure my app wasn't > suppressing the error message, I sent an update using curl: > > curl -u <username>:<password> -d "status=testing" > http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml > -D headerfile > > The status wasn't updated and no error message was returned. The > headerfile contained HTTP return code 200. But when I tried to enter > an update for the same account through the web interface at > twitter.com, I got an error message saying that I had posted too many > updates in the last hour. > > When I used the curl command above and the update failed, I did notice > that the returned <text> element did not contain the status text I had > sent. Instead it contained my last successful update from 30 minutes > earlier. When there is a successful update, the <text> element seems > to contain the status update I just sent. > > Should I examine the <text> element to verify that the update worked, > instead of checking for HTTP error codes? Or was this just a temporary > glitch today? > > All the best, > > /Martin >
