Thanks. That would be really helpful. Can you send me more details on that?
On Jul 11, 1:07 pm, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> wrote: > Authenticated requests aren't possible using the widgets really (well, not > without getting pretty complex and at that point you're building something > yourself). > > Authenticated means I'm requesting data from Twitter and it knows that I'm > @episod as opposed to just an anonymous user calling Twitter. > > To a certain degree, this is just the way that rate limiting works right now > and you'll have to deal with it. Though if you've got some technical > interest and a developer, you can find ways to mitigate the issue -- happy > to walk through some of those options with you if you like. > > @episod <http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=episod> - Taylor > Singletary > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 1:03 PM, twitterwidget > <twitterwidget...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > > > > > Thanks Taylor for getting back to me. > > > But can you tell me what is the difference between authenticated > > request and unauthenticated request? > > Is there any other better approach of using this widget or do we have > > to just live with it? > > > On Jul 11, 12:55 pm, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> > > wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > The widgets are rate limited the same as twitter.com and the API: a > > single > > > IP address is allowed up to 150 unauthenticated requests per hour against > > > api.twitter.com and twitter.com. Search widgets are rate limited also by > > IP > > > address but with different limits. > > > > If you share an IP address with many users, you may exhaust the amount of > > > requests your shared IP address can make to Twitter. In that case you > > might > > > see an empty/slow to update widget. Your end users might see a fully > > > functional widget if their own perspectival rate limits have not been > > > exhausted. > > > > If you're using a search widget instead, it's good to know that our > > search > > > index only maps a few days worth of tweets -- if there haven't been > > tweets > > > recently matching the queries in a search widget, it will also have no > > > results to display. > > > > @episod <http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=episod> - Taylor > > > Singletary > > > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:20 PM, twitterwidget > > > <twitterwidget...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > Someone please help. > > > > > On Jul 8, 10:04 am, twitterwidget <twitterwidget...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Can someone please help me to understand how rate limiting works for > > > > > twitter widget, either the profile or the list widget. I have gone > > > > > through the rate limit faq herehttp:// > > > > dev.twitter.com/pages/rate_limiting_faq > > > > > which talks about authorized and unauthorized requests which is a bit > > > > > confusing to me. > > > > > > I want to understand this because the widget goes blank on our site > > > > > sometimes, which we don't want it to happen. > > > > > > Can you please help. > > > > > -- > > > > 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