Are you using OAuth for your application? If not, the wind-down of Basic auth is probably the reason for this decrease - and you'll be without Basic Auth at the end of the month
http://countdowntooauth.com/ -N On Aug 26, 4:49 pm, David Toussaint <david.toussa...@azionare.de> wrote: > Hi, > > My company is offering a regional tweet-monitoring tool (http:// > twittercrawl.de) and is collecting all tweets from Germany. > > For doing this we decided to use the REST API and got our IP-Address > whitelisted a little while ago. Everything is working fine except that > we are getting reduced API-limits on the REST API for some days now. > Instead of being allowed to post 20k requests the number is going up > and down from 16k to 2.6k to 6k and so on. > > Unfortunately we are really depending on those 20k API requests per > hour and are now wondering what could be the reason for that? > > Any help is appreciated! > > Thanks a lot, > > David -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en