tag:,2009:/1/tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.6756- 2009-11-23T18:56:24Z Comments for Twitter Back On Track? - Raises API Limit To 100 Requests Per Hour Movable Type 4.23-en tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.6756 2008-07-10T09:28:55Z 2008-07-10T10:09:39Z Twitter Back On Track? - Raises API Limit To 100 Requests Per Hour Since Twitter's introduction into the tech community at SxSW, Twitter has gone through a ton of ups and downs. Twitter's downtime has been the talk of the community for several months now. Now, with a lot of heavy hitters on the team, Twitter seems to be on the right track getting its act together.... Corvida Since Twitter's introduction into the tech community at SxSW, Twitter has gone through a ton of ups and downs. Twitter's downtime has been the talk of the community for several months now. Now, with a lot of heavy hitters on the team, Twitter seems to be on the right track getting its act together.

]]> Uptime and A Higher API Limits

Lately, Twitter has been more stable than we've ever seen before. Earlier this week Twitter had some scheduled downtime, but apparently it was for a good reason. However Twhirl hasn't been giving me very many errors these days. I also haven't received a "pause" message from Twhirl either. On the other hand, it's recently been announced that Twitter has upped its API limit to 100 requests per hour - with the goal of keeping the limit to least 70. Don't believe me? Check Twhirl.

The Future of Twitter and Clones

The biggest question at this point is: will this be consistent behavior from Twitter from now on? While we're sure FriendFeed will be safe from any repercussions, what will this mean for the clones such as Plurk, identi.ca, and kwippy? We'd love to hear your comments about the increase in the API limit and the future of the many Twitter clones.

]]> tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.6756-comment:60144 Comment from Sasha Kovaliov on 2008-07-10 Sasha Kovaliov http://friendfeed.com/nlupus finally, I was going to cahnge my password

]]> 2008-07-10T09:36:57Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.6756-comment:60145 Comment from Zee from WeDoCreative on 2008-07-10 Zee from WeDoCreative http://friendfeed.com/zee fantastic!

]]> 2008-07-10T09:40:44Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.6756-comment:60146 Comment from Duncan Riley on 2008-07-10 Duncan Riley http://friendfeed.com/duncanriley I'll believe it when it's still working in 2 days time :-)

]]> 2008-07-10T09:43:31Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.6756-comment:60147 Comment from Sasha Kovaliov on 2008-07-10 Sasha Kovaliov http://friendfeed.com/nlupus @Duncan - 2 days time in a row :)

]]> 2008-07-10T09:44:15Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.6756-comment:60148 Comment from Dave Gray on 2008-07-10 Dave Gray http://friendfeed.com/therooster Agreed 2 days...

]]> 2008-07-10T09:46:04Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.6756-comment:60149 Comment from Yuvi on 2008-07-10 Yuvi http://friendfeed.com/yuvipanda Wow, it was only 70 when I joined in...

]]> 2008-07-10T09:47:01Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.6756-comment:60150 Comment from acedanger on 2008-07-10 acedanger http://friendfeed.com/acedanger Whoa! I'm awake - just did the pinch test. What does the status blog say the req/hr rate is? (I'm on a mobile and can't check myself.)

]]> 2008-07-10T10:05:23Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.6756-comment:60151 Comment from Rob Diana on 2008-07-10 Rob Diana http://friendfeed.com/robdiana The status blog still says the API is limited to 20/hr. But it is early over on the west coast, so maybe there will be an update in a few hours.

]]> 2008-07-10T10:16:36Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.6756-comment:60153 Comment from Piers on 2008-07-10 Piers http://piersonthe.net Was announced on the dev mailing list today: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/d9a54ff20fec36d8 (scroll down a bit)

]]> 2008-07-10T10:37:27Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.6756-comment:60155 Comment from Susan Beebe on 2008-07-10 Susan Beebe http://friendfeed.com/susanbeebe Yeah, I saw @tweetdeck post a tweet about 100 / hr this morning...woo hoo!! very GOOD sign that twitter is making corrections in the right direction....yeah twitter!

]]> 2008-07-10T10:53:06Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.6756-comment:60156 Comment from Tom Lee on 2008-07-10 Tom Lee http://www.chanceforme.com I had a bit dificulty in the begining, when I changed the pass word all went well. Works fine now.

]]> 2008-07-10T11:10:05Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.6756-comment:60158 Comment from Richard Cunningham on 2008-07-10 Richard Cunningham http://friendbinder.com/ I agree this is an improvement. Also I notice that paging through a user's timeline in the API has been re-enabled (on 7th July?) after a long time of being disabled. However there still seem to problems with the caches of API data giving very out of date data (a day or two) and missing fields.

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/849f55441abdf59e/9d120e1085c7688f

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/6c1b09be52e4c591/69a5c73b8aa3065e

Also recently there have been problems with 500 errors on posting updates:
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/4162167e574612a3

So I would say they are on the right track, but not out of the woods yet.

]]> 2008-07-10T11:31:00Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.6756-comment:60159 Comment from Billy Fairchild on 2008-07-10 Billy Fairchild http://friendfeed.com/tw3nty3ight Hopefully IM will be back soon!

]]> 2008-07-10T11:37:59Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.6756-comment:60162 Comment from LiveCrunch on 2008-07-10 LiveCrunch http://www.livecrunch.com Plurk still rocks!

]]> 2008-07-10T12:04:56Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.6756-comment:60164 Comment from gadis on 2008-07-10 gadis http://gadis.cheatgame.info/ i'll try my twitter

]]> 2008-07-10T12:17:23Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.6756-comment:60170 Comment from Todd on 2008-07-10 Todd "Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated" - The Twitter Fail Whale

]]> 2008-07-10T14:31:02Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.6756-comment:60176 Comment from Shawn Kirsch on 2008-07-10 Shawn Kirsch http://friendfeed.com/thattalldude It's nice that they have the API limit moving up, but it still doesn't offer the response time that I desire. When I'm on Twitter, I'm interacting rapidly with people, and I have a lot of stuff flowing by very quickly. I need GTalk integration to work again. Updated right away, without the need for a client to request updates, and I can respond right away. Anything less and my Twitter use is too frustrating.

Twitter @thattalldude

]]> 2008-07-10T15:29:58Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.6756-comment:60177 Comment from Alan Le on 2008-07-10 Alan Le http://friendfeed.com/a7an 100 requests/hour! finally some good news from twitter.

]]> 2008-07-10T15:36:33Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.6756-comment:60180 Comment from Bill Sodeman on 2008-07-10 Bill Sodeman http://friendfeed.com/billso Does Twitter have an iPhone version of the FailWhale ready for this weekend?

]]> 2008-07-10T15:43:40Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.6756-comment:60187 Comment from acedanger on 2008-07-10 acedanger http://friendfeed.com/acedanger status blog says 100 req/hr...whoa!

]]> 2008-07-10T18:17:32Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.6756-comment:60784 Comment from Rudy on 2008-07-17 Rudy http://www.amid.com/werd/ It's been more than a week now and looks like Twitter's still stable. The clones be damned.

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