Comment on Twitter Mutual Followers and Unfollows - A Quick HackparentComments−joelg8714yHi Simon. The rate limiting is per Twitter credentials once authorized through OAuth, so you shouldn't have any issues there :)−jarofgreen14yActually you are still rate limited when using OAuth credentials, it's just a higher rate.If you can get users to log-in to your app and can then call the API with many different credentials it does help a lot tho.I did a twitter hack at a recent hackday, and had massive problems with this. :-) http://jarofgreen.co.uk/2012/04/flocklight/ (It's Open Source if anyone wants to help)
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Hi Simon. The rate limiting is per Twitter credentials once authorized through OAuth, so you shouldn't have any issues there :)
Actually you are still rate limited when using OAuth credentials, it's just a higher rate.
If you can get users to log-in to your app and can then call the API with many different credentials it does help a lot tho.
I did a twitter hack at a recent hackday, and had massive problems with this. :-) http://jarofgreen.co.uk/2012/04/flocklight/ (It's Open Source if anyone wants to help)