As far as i know thats correct. blogtoilet.com
On Sep 26, 7:36 am, Patrick <pkollit...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > this might be obvious to everybody working longer with the API but to > me its a bit unclear: > > If I call rate_limit_status from a script that I registered > athttp://twitter.com/oauthand using OAuth I get 20000 API calls per > hour as as base for my requests. > If I call rate_limit_status from a not registered script with username/ > password (Basic Auth) I get 150 API calls per hours as a base for the > authenticated user. > > As far as I understand the documentation > athttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-account%C2%A0rate... > I would expect the response of rate_limit_status via OAuth to be based > on the users calls (ie. returning 150 calls per hours with how many > calls are left). > > But: if I send the request authenticated with token and secret via > OAuth I always get a response based on 20000 calls per hour. > > Is that right? > > Thanks, > Patrick
