Buffer claims to have millions of users, all scheduling posts. The free plan allows for 10 posts per day.
How does Buffer overcome Twitter API limits?
They're not bypassing the limit, they're doing the queries on your behalf. I don't have an account with them, but most sites where you can login to them using Twitter utilize your credentials to submit the queries allowing them to do many at once.
A good way to test this is going to your profile settings, then click on either Apps or Your Twitter Data you should see their name popup there. For their paid version, they could purchase an increase in limit from Twitter but you'll end up paying for that through their pricing cost.
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I am working for a news channel which uploads 50 videos per day. I have integrated youtube api on the website for the same purpose. There seems to be a quota limit of 6 videos per day. Is there any way I can purchase or get more quota limit? What is the process and charges for increasing the quota limit.
The only way of obtaining a quota extension for your application is that of addressing Google directly.
There's this form that you'll have to fill in. Than wait for response -- which, according to the experience of users of this forum, doesn't arrive shortly.
I haven't worked with uploading videos but you should be able to ask for additional quotas for google apis on the IAM & ADMIN console view under Quotas (there should be a link from the developer dashboard under Quotas. Once there just select the quota you would like to change and submit a request.
Having said that, I have no experience with this process, so I don't know what is the involved in approving such a requests nor what kind of costs be involved.
Sorry if my question to too naive. But i wish to find audience level information for a particular twitter handle. Lets consider #BarackObama, i wish to find his followers by gender, age, language, location etc. I used python scripts in this link https://github.com/GnipDz/Python-Insights to achieve it.
I do have access to twitter ADS API but it still shows your application ID is not authorized when i try to run the scripts. Is there a special API or addition over Ads API to achieve this? can someone guide me as to how i can do this?
Those scripts use Twitter's enterprise (commercial) Audience API. This API does not enable you to access audiences for individual users, only aggregated data for large numbers of Twitter handles. Additionally, this is not a free-to-access API so you need to have an active enterprise subscription for this to work.
I'm not aware of any programmatic way to access this data, and particularly not for any organic account - the Engagement API enables access to Tweet engagements for the authenticated account, but you're not able to access that data for other users.
I'm using the twitter api to get data on many twitter accounts, because of the rate limit and since i can't ask the owners of all those twitter accounts to authenticate, i've to create several applications on my developer account
(note that i'm already queuing and combining requests, i've used all best practices).
My question, what's the maximum number of applications allowed per developer account? i didn't manage to get this answer anywhere on the web nor on the twitter documentation
Mentioned in 24 July 2018 twitter announcement, The limit is 10 apps per dev account.
We’re also limiting the default number of apps you may have registered
by a single developer account to 10. Developers who need to register
more than 10 apps — for instance, to enable client-specific products
which require distinct apps — can request permission using the API
Policy support form. If you already have more than 10 apps registered,
you can continue to use them as long as they comply with our rules but
you won’t be able to register new apps until you either request
permission for additional apps or delete unused ones.
https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tools/2018/new-developer-requirements-to-protect-our-platform.html
Also, note that you can only create 3 new apps in a 24 hour period.
First of all, you should NOT make more than one Application for one application.
You need to handle data logically. Cache the data you are requesting so you can limit the number of requests to twitter's API.
How to limit requests: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/faq#5823
Here are some docs:
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/rate-limiting/1.1
and https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/8126
I'm using the Twitter/Social frameworks to build a small Twitter app. It's not really a client, but you can send tweets from it and do a handful of other things (like view followers).
My question is, am I subject to the 100,000 token user limit? I am using TWRequest to handle everything from posting tweets to pulling in followers/lists etc.
From what I can tell, the 100,000 user limit does not apply to this scenario (as I haven't needed to generate a token to access any of that functionality) and I'm not replicating twitters core functionality.
Any application that accesses the home timeline or direct message APIs consumers user tokens. However, your application seems to be for your own personal use. Therefore, you're not going to ever need 100,000 user tokens.
Let's say I am making a sign up form in which I asked user's twitter ID. How do I verify if the ID entered by user belongs to him/her? In case of verifying email we simply send a verification link which user has to click so how do I verify twitter ID? I have never used twitter before.
The only reliable and practical way to verify that twitter account X belongs to user Y this to do full on “3 legged” OAuth authentication. That being said, you may want to consider if you might be OK with just taking the user at their word on it.
Getting OAuth to work and securely storing the resulting tokens is much easier nowadays than it once was, but is still non-trivial.
Reasons to verify the twitter account, in increasing reasonableness:
You will be making enough server side requests, on behalf of multiple users, that you run up against Twitter’s API Rate Limiting. (Having multiple auth-tokens will allow for a higher API rate)
You need to automagically send tweets and/or follow accounts on the user’s behalf
N.B. do this as opt-in and be ultra clear about when/why you will be doing this, or you will face the justified fury of scorned users
Don’t verify the account if you’re looking to do these things:
You need to send tweets and/or follow accounts on the user’s behalf, and the user will be able to perform a browser based confirmation workflow for each of those actions; use Twitter’s Web Intents for this.
If you just want to pull in real time data for user’s avatar, bio, or recent Tweets Twitter supplies some prefab widgets for you.
All of the authenticated Twitter API Calls can be done client side with JavaScript. Twitter has a js framework, which does not require you to handle and store tokens on your server, to help you with that.
An alternate contact method for password resets, notifications, etc.
Private communication between users on twitter requires mutual following, many users probably never check their Direct Messages (or even know what a DM is), and any messages would be limited to 140 characters. Just use email for all that kind of nonsense.
If you’re just gathering this info to display it on a user’s profile page, in an “other places on the web” kind of way, integrating and maintaining all the server side OAuth pieces is likely too much bother. Just make sure you have a reasonable and clear TOS and an obvious way for 3rd parties to report any of your users who may be claiming a twitter account that is not their own.
If you’re still interested in OAuth, Twitter's Dev page has plenty of resources, including a nice overview of a generic “Sign In with Twitter” “3 legged” OAuth work flow.