Hey all! I wanted to check in with the community before writing a...@twitter.com, just so I dont look like a fool I am hoping to pick your brains so it seems like I am at least a little informed.
I am writing an application for android that uses the twitter geo search api, but I am finding it to be severely crippled and throttled to the point where it is almost unusable. I thought it was just a temporary issue at first but it seems that I am getting consistent 503 errors when attempting to call http://api.twitter.com/version/geo/search.json regardless of time of day or how many requests I make (1-30 per hour). I use OAuth for all authentication clients. 09-20 19:57:22.107: Problem with Twitter:503:Service Unavailable: The Twitter servers are up, but overloaded with requests. Try again later. The search and trend methods use this to indicate when you are being rate limited. 09-20 19:57:22.107: {"errors":[{"code":10,"message":"Geo services are temporarily available"}]} 09-20 19:57:22.107: TwitterException{statusCode=503, retryAfter=0, rateLimitStatus=RateLimitStatusJSONImpl{remainingHits=347, hourlyLimit=350, resetTimeInSeconds=1285041, secondsUntilReset=3549, resetTime=Mon Sep 20 20:56:32 PDT 2010}} I thought it may be rate limited but my rate limit seems to have lots of headroom (remainingHits=347, hourlyLimit=350). Any help is appreciated, there is no way I can move forward with my approach to use twitter unless these APIs are not highly available. BTW if you have an android phone and a twitter account I would love you to participate in our private beta! Thanks! ================= Clay Graham Starter Sightly Inc. http://sightlyinc.com http://ratecred.com -- 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
