I reported this bug yesterday. Instead of making that extra call, why not look at the response headers which come back with each API ACCESS - you'll get the info you need:
"X-Ratelimit-Limit" = 150; "X-Ratelimit-Remaining" = 133; "X-Ratelimit-Reset" = 1267576025; Andrew Stone Twitter / @twittelator http://www.stone.com got iPhone? http://j.mp/twitpro http://j.mp/tweettv-app On Mar 2, 11:47 am, eclipsed4utoo <ryanalford...@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought that the OAuth Rate Limit went up to 350? I am still > getting 150. > > Here is the returned XML from my request > tohttp://api.twitter.com/1/account/rate_limit_status.xml > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <hash> > <reset-time type="datetime">2010-03-02T19:42:28+00:00</reset-time> > <hourly-limit type="integer">150</hourly-limit> > <reset-time-in-seconds type="integer">1267558948</reset-time-in- > seconds> > <remaining-hits type="integer">150</remaining-hits> > </hash> > > I am using OAuth and using the new "version" of the REST API. What > else do I need to do?