Ah! I feel similar. Which essentially means that despite acquiring data which is publicly available I will be limited to 150 requests per hour and even OAuth will not help increasing it to 350 ?
--Regards, Denzil On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 2:32 AM, James Gifford <ja...@jamesrgifford.com> wrote: > The way I'm reading it it falls under 1. But I might be mistaken. > > --James Gifford > http://jamesrgifford.com > > On Jun 3, 2011, at 17:01, Correa Denzil <mcen...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am collecting Twitter data for my research. The API says that : >> >> [1] "Anonymous calls are based on the IP of the host and are permitted >> 150 requests per hour. This classification includes unauthenticated >> requests (such as RSS feeds), and authenticated requests to resources >> that do not require authentication." >> >> [2] "OAuth calls are permitted 350 requests per hour." >> >> I want to seek a clarification on point [1]. Lets say I want to access >> a list of followers of a user id (which is public). Would this be >> counted as rate limiting under point [1] or point [2] ? >> >> >> --Regards, >> Denzil >> >> -- >> Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc >> API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi >> Issues/Enhancements Tracker: >> https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list >> Change your membership to this group: >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
