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dredful
dredful

Reputation: 4388

Do public Twitter RSS feeds have access limits?

Example RSS feed link: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/twitter.rss

Does anyone know if Twitter limits calls to a public RSS feed? This is not using an API but a simple call to a URL.

I am unable to find anything official (or even speculative). I know the API has access limits of x requests within y minutes. I am wondering if the public RSS feeds follow a similar pattern. I am seeing behavior in a mobile app that makes me think that this may be the case.

Device 1 receives an empty response while device 2 still gets updates for identical feed. Have also seen it on from my computer running a simulator for a while. Simulator stopped getting updates, then I couldn't pull up the feed in a web browser on same machine that was running the simulator. I am suspicious that Twitter is limiting RSS feed access by device. I think this because in the previous example, all RSS feeds were inaccessible form the web browser while the Twitter site was functioning properly in the same web browser.

The RSS URL is being queried every 10 minutes.

Any insight is appreciated.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3147

Answers (2)

Abbafei
Abbafei

Reputation: 3126

Twitter's web site is a client of their API, so I'm guessing their RSS feeds are also clients of the Twitter API as well. See this page at the Twitter engineering site for more information about this, and also see the Twitter Rate Limiting FAQ for information about rate limiting.

Upvotes: 1

tomasdev
tomasdev

Reputation: 5997

Non authenticated (OAuth only) requests rate is 150 per hour. OAuth requests rate is 350 per hour. Requests limit rate is per IP address, so I don't think Twitter will deny the request with ONE request every 10 minutes.

The method you mention is public, but the only requests that doesn't have the rate limit are the ones of the search API (which has a little delay versus the 'real time'). Anyway I suggest you to read: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/rate-limiting and http://dev.twitter.com/pages/rate_limiting_faq

Upvotes: 4

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