Twitter rate limit

Question

hi,

I'm trying to use this:

https://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml

to check that i'm not going over the rate limiting on twitter. Problem is i'm making calls but the remaining-hits param does not seem to be reducing by as much as i'm calling:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
<hash>
<reset-time-in-seconds type="integer">1281858712</reset-time-in-seconds> 
<reset-time type="datetime">2010-08-15T07:51:52+00:00</reset-time> 
<remaining-hits type="integer">146</remaining-hits> 
<hourly-limit type="integer">150</hourly-limit> 
</hash>

I'm just making calls that don't require authentication and I've read this bit in the documentation:

Requires Authentication (about authentication): true, to determine a user's rate limit status false, to determine the requesting IP's rate limit status

(http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-account%C2%A0rate_limit_status)

So do I need to set false somewhere in my call? I'm not an authenticated user so the only limits I have are the current limit on the ip.

Answer 1

No. If you don't use authentication then "false" is supposed automatically.

Are you sure that you are making calls that are rate limited:

The REST API does user and IP-based rate limiting. Authenticated API calls are measure against the authenticating user's rate limit. Unauthenticated calls are deducted from the calling hosts IP address allowance.

Rate limits are applied to methods that request information with the HTTP GET command. Generally API methods that use HTTP POST to submit data to Twitter are not rate limited, however some methods are being rate limited now. Every method in the API documentation explains if it is rate limited or not.