Comments on: Whitelisted by the Twitter API

By: Richie

Richie — Sun, 31 May 2009 10:33:16 +0000

Hi, whitelisting is to work with the API and it seems like what you are trying to do is unrelated. I just checked out your blog and I think what you are doing is pretty cool, I only have a 3 month so he’s a too young at the moment and I read him books with big loud images, but I think if he were a little older it would be a lot of fun to have new stories to read him. I think this would work quite well on twitter, and add a new twist as every sentence needs to be 140 characters or less! You probably need to follow and be followed back by the people involved in this, I recommend searching out mother groups and story groups. Good luck!

By: To Begin:

To Begin: — Sat, 30 May 2009 16:11:44 +0000

Hi Richard,
I was researching this whole whitelisting process for my twitter account @storyexperiment and came across your blog. I started this experiment on fb but want to move it to twitter in the next week. Basically the experiment is : add 1 word, sentence (tweet) to the most recent comment and we will make a story 1 line at a time.
SO learning about twitter…i need followers to do this and I think I have to follow them in order to make it work? Otherwise, I am stuck with this question of Can people just shout out the next sentence, or do I have to call on them? I don’t think my account would be available to be whitelisted as it says you must be a developer or have API knowledge. I checked the box that said, if you have no idea what we are talking about whitelisting is not for you =( Hence, I went looking and found you? So what obstacles do you think I will experience with this experiment? How can I prevent them and be proactive? Please help if you can. Thanks. Oh yeah and follow me too! @storyexperiment.
Thanks

By: Dougal

Dougal — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:36:00 +0000

They definitely apply the 20K/hour limit (normally 100/hr) on the whitelisted, authenticated calls. I ran into that with Twitual when I neglected to double-check some return statuses, and ended up with an occassional infinite loop that ate my allocation :)

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:11:00 +0000

I heard they were going to allow more calls with the role out of oAuth, has that happened?

By: Richie

Richie — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:37:00 +0000

Jon I’m not sure if they are allowing more calls or not. I was looking for the exact query allocation number as sometimes it’s quoted as 70 per hour but I’m sure I’d seen somewhere as 100 per hour. Then I found the whitelist request form, got my 20k calls per hour, and I don’t care anymore!