Comment on BlinkLink Post-Mortem: 50k pageviews, 700 blinksparentComments−lukashed13yThanks, good to know. Though in the current version of the API (1.1), there is a rate limitation of 180 requests/15m (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/users/show), which could become a problem quite quickly on a website of that scale.−ceejayoz13yThe rate limit is done against the user's access token, not the server itself. A billion users gets you 180 billion requests in 15 min.
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Thanks, good to know. Though in the current version of the API (1.1), there is a rate limitation of 180 requests/15m (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/users/show), which could become a problem quite quickly on a website of that scale.
The rate limit is done against the user's access token, not the server itself. A billion users gets you 180 billion requests in 15 min.