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louisgray.com: Throttled By the Twitter API? Try Something New. view story

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Submitted by robdiana about 1 month ago

Guest Post By Rob Diana of Regular Geek. The microblogging API space sure got interesting in a hurry.First, Louis Gray reported that Twitter was throttling unauthenticated API requests. Then we found out that Identi.ca had implemented the Twitter API.

  1. Did anyone bother to read this before up-voting it?

    The article's main gripe with the Twitter API is the limit on unauthenticated API requests. Every big service is like this, and just because another site doesn't have a limit yet doesn't mean it won't have one very soon.

    Ever write anything for a Google application? Most request at the very least an API key which is bound to where your application hails from, and then there is also authentication on stuff like gmail and google calendar. If you want to break out of that model, Google says "yeah no thanks.

    Twitter specifically states on their API page that if you're hitting the limit too frequently then you can request to be whitelisted. Several sites out there have already received this. If you ask and get denied then maybe you should start thinking about whether or not you need your updates to pull as frequently as you're requesting them.

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  2. @PatrickTulskie
    Actually, the article really talks about what the other microblogging APIs can do. It was initially written due to the throttling of the API, but the identica news and the Gnip partnership change this a little. If you read towards the bottom of the article, you will notice that the discussion is mostly about interoperability and the possibility of a multi-service client.

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  3. @robdiana Yeah I saw a lot of the other stuff it talked about but it felt like it was all at the expense of the twitter API.

    As far as a multi-service client - twhirl and digsby are getting closer to that all the time and I'm actually cooking up a web based one similar to ping.fm, but with more "stuff".

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