CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user187809
user187809

Reputation:

how to overcome twitter api rate limit?

I am writing a small app, building stats for twitter users (no of tweets, friends etc). I am using this api

http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?user_id=12345

I can only make 150 calls per hour, which is very very small, given the size of twitter. How do companies that rely on Twitter's API manage to overcome this rate limit?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 14616

Answers (3)

Tom
Tom

Reputation: 8180

You will easily get whitelisted, just apply. They will accept more or less any reasonable application, but just don't want to leave it 'wide open'. If they dont accept you, and you still want to get your hands on the data, just scrape it.

Upvotes: -1

meow
meow

Reputation: 28164

You need to get whitelisted to get a far higher rate limit. They are open to all sorts of developers, as long as you give a good reason for what you are developing:

http://twitter.com/help/request_whitelisting

Upvotes: 0

Daniel A. White
Daniel A. White

Reputation: 190945

The 150 API calls is per user per application. Larger companies likely broker deals with Twitter.

Upvotes: 3

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