Twitter 400 error through LinqToTwitter Jul 6th '10
I deployed my first stab at the twitter integration with tinyCRM onto a worker role the live Azure environment and I was very happy for 50 minutes. Then I started getting a 400 error code from twitter. Then after 10 to 20 minutes everything started working again.
Turns out there is currently a rate limit of 150 requests an hour. I was making a request every 20 seconds, which results in 180 request per hour. So I need to change my code quickly in order to prevent it getting black listed (which can happen if your app ignores the rate limit). Also it is easy to check your current limit from the response header given back during a query. So there are no excuses for not creating a well behaved application.
More info can be found at https://twitterapi.pbworks.com/Rate-limiting
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