I've written a small app for use with some auction software. All this app does is run via cron every 2 hours and picks a random auction (that is open) and then posts it to my twitter page using OAuth.
This works great, and many times it does update just fine. However occasionally, I get a failed response back from Twitter stating 403 - Request has been refused. Possible causes: denied due to update limits. Since my cron only runs every 2 hours, then I am only submitting 12 tweets to my Twitter page in a 24 hour period... That's certainly less than the 150/hour or the 1000/day that is listed in the wiki. My script/app does not do any deleting, following etc... It just sends an update to my page with a random auction listing. So in a 24 hour period, I get on average about 8 successful tweets instead of the 12 I should be getting. I'm just wondering if there is something else that the 403 could be representing other than update limits. Perhaps Twitter itself is over loaded? If that is the case, should it not provide a different error code??? Something that says "Twitter is busy right now, try again later", instead of the rate limit error which makes it sound like there's something wrong with my script/app. I sent an email to a...@twitter.com and the response was to come and ask here. If anyone wants to see the code, it can be downloaded from http://www.aggielandauctions.com/mods Thanks in advance, Peter Elsner -- 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
