[twitter-dev] Re: Search API rate limit

Matt,


What is exact limit..Whether I can write to twitter for whitelisting
of the IP?

Whether whitelisting of the IP would do any good?


Shan



On Jul 7, 12:16 am, Matt Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Shan,
>
> The Search API is anonymous so authenticating makes no difference to the
> rate limit there. If you are requesting a lot of information from the search
> API you may want to look at the streaming API 
> instead:http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api
>
> The majority of search cases can be handled by the default filter limits
> available through the streaming API.
>
> Best,
> Matt
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Ramanean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am developing a normal twitter search application
>
> > Inorder to beat the search rate limit if I ask a user to authenticate
> > whether that would be helpful?
>
> >  Whether the calls made by the user for search api will be counted in
> > the user's account ? or whether that would be
>
> > still counted as a call from the IP address of the website?
>
> > I am little bit confused here...
>
> > Thanks
> > Shan
>
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>
> Matt Harris
> Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris