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Killerpixler
Killerpixler

Reputation: 4050

Twitter REST API ruby gem rate limits for basic questions

I am working on creating a Business Intelligence warehouse for my employer and Twitter data is on the list. I am lost on the Twitter documentation. My goal is to create this list (dynamically)

Using the ruby twitter gem I called client.followers and explored the result to get a feel for it. However I got immediately rate limited and I also can't find anything in the documentation on Twitter on how to pass in date ranges for example.

Can anyone give me pointers on how to accomplish some of these requests? Do I need to keep bumping into the limit until I have for instance the date that each individual followed me and then roll it up myself?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 83

Answers (1)

Devarsh Desai
Devarsh Desai

Reputation: 6112

I explored this a while back & unfortunately, unless you sign up for Twitter's firehose API, you're going to have to deal with the limitations on their API.

It's their monetization scheme :-/ unfortunately everything isn't covered under the fremium business plan.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Upvotes: 1

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