Twitter Raises API Limit

Great news for Twitter developers!


I just noticed in my web app iTweet that Twitter is reporting a maximum of 150 API requests per hour now! Hurray!  This is great news for Twitter clients, as the API limit is a constant challenge in user interaction.

Twitter had mentioned that this was in the works, but so far I haven't heard mention of them actually launching this upgrade.  I hope it is here to stay!

They have also recently fixed a long-standing bug that caused followers/following methods to report incorrect data. Along with this fix came some new API methods for managing follow relationships - I will be updating iTweet with a new follow/unfollow UI just as soon as I can get to it!

There are some really great improvements coming soon to iTweet.net - stay tuned for much much more.

Posted on July 2, 2009, 4:48 a.m. Tags: api itweet twitter

Comments

  • Yes, they raised it up to 150.

    Did you know? You can reach a max of 20,000 hits per hour after submitting a white list request. This takes about 2 hours and should be submitted for account AND Server IP. Unfortunately the "remaining hits" API seems to be broken in the last few weeks. I usually get a count of around 19,900 free hits (much too high).

    Posted by: VolksPhone on Sept. 21, 2009 • Reply ↩

  • I enjoy your excellent Twitter API client iTweet 2 on the web. I pray you make a stripped-down version for "dump-phones". It'll be great to have a version that works similar to m.tweete.net and dabr.co.uk

    Thanks. :lol:

    Posted by: GADEL on Jan. 21, 2010 • Reply ↩

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