You are looking at the rate limiting for GET requests. POST request for
creating updates has a different limit:
http://help.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15364
Abraham
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 15:34, Stuart Smith <stuartmartinsm...@btinternet.com
> wrote:
> I am using Tweet# and using a loop to generate a number of tweets from
> a larger string as follows:
>
> List<string> result = new List<string>(Regex.Split(output,
> @"(?<=\G.{120})"));
> for (int i = result.Count - 1; i > -1; i--)
> {
> string text = "/statuses/update.xml?stat...@xxxxxxxx "
> + result.ElementAt(i);
> var twitter = FluentTwitter.CreateRequest()
> .AuthenticateAs("xxxxxx", "yyyyyy")
> .Direct(text)
> .Post();
> var response = twitter.Request();
> Thread.Sleep(100);
> }
>
> [ignore the crappy C# as this is my 1st attempt at it]
>
> and I get a 403 forbidden response which suggests that I am over my
> update limit:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <hash>
> <request>/1/statuses/update.xml?status=%40xxxxxx+rxxxxxxxx+xxxxxx.
> +xxxxxxx.&source=tweetsharp</request>
> <error>User is over daily status update limit.</error> </hash>
>
> However, when I get my limits data using .Account().GetRateLimitStatus
> () I get this:
>
> base {Dimebrain.TweetSharp.Model.PropertyChangedBase} = 136 / 150
> remaining.
>
> What am I doing wrong?? I am sure I read somewhere that there is no
> update limit.
>
> I have only sent 150-200 tweets in the past 8 hours altho quite a few
> of them were rejected (I think) as 'duplicate text' since this is a
> test application and I wasn;t continually changing the tweet text.
>
> Thanks,
>
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