Twitter rate limit? - twitter

So I'm aware that twitter has a rate limit of 150 requests per hour.
But for some reason I keep getting the error from twitter that I have reached my rate limit, which is impossible considering the amount of times I accessed it.
I started monitoring the changes in hits left per hour, and realized that it decreases to 0 within half an hour or so. At that point I thought the problem is with my website not having a dedicated ip, so I requested this change to be made with my hosting company.
However even after my website has moved to a dedicated ip the remaining hits per hour still decreases at the same rate without me using it.. I honestly have no idea why this is happening.
And an interesting thing:
I tried using the javascript code supplied by:
http://code.google.com/p/twitterjs/
and found that even after the limit reached 0, it still seems to be able to load tweets.
Anyone know why this is happening?
Test page I was working on:
http://ice3studio.com/twitterTesting/
- 1st section in the white box is js with php caching (which cannot grab twitter feed after limit is reached)
- 2nd section is the js code from google code
I am very new at this so I appreciate any help!
Thanks in advance :D

If the GET request is authenticated then rate limit applies to the user otherwise its the IP.
Only GET request has rate limit. POST request has no rate limit.
Twitter JS can load tweets because its running on clients end and every client has different IP. If you use this library with a same account it'll be rate limited as you are sending authenticated request.
You can always white list your IP and account. It'll increase your rate limit greatly.

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In order to get the API Calls to work, I'm only trying to get information from my business by using "Get-requests". However when calling several methods, I keep receiving the following errors:
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If the quota approval form was ignored, you might still have a chance via the API support (https://support.google.com/business/contact/api_default).
They might be reluctant to grant you a quota if your maximum location count is this low though - the API is designed for larger use cases.
Is it documented anywhere that it's meant for larger users? I got approved being very clear it was only for a handful of locations.
BUT even though I got approved and have access there are 3 specific quotas (all per-minute) that are set to zero, even though I have tonnes of allowance for all the non-per-minute quotas. Seems like a bug to me.
I can make 10000 "Update Location requests per day" but zero per minute.

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I am trying to fetch all the subscriptions ids of a youtube channel that has 100k+ subscribers. When fetching the first page of results, youtube returns properly the total amount of subscriptions and the next page token.
After a few hundred calls (because you can only fetch 50 results per call), the api doesn't provide anymore the nextPageToken, and the listing stops with only ~20k subscriptions listed.
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I think you need to check for an error, If you have reached the quota limit you should get an error when you try and make another request.
Daily quota is 50,000,000 units/day
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I am not clear about what the Twitter rate limit, "350 requests per hour per access token/user", means. How they are limiting the request? In 1 request how much data i can get?
The rate limits are based on request, not the amount of data (e.g. bytes) you receive. With that in mind, you can maximize requests by using the available parameters of the particular endpoint you're calling. I'll give you a couple examples to explain what I mean:
One way is to set count, if supported, to the highest available value. On statuses/home_timeline, you can max out count at 200. If you aren't using it now, you're getting the default of 20, which means that you would (theoretically) need to do 10 more queries the get the same amount of data. More queries mean you eat up rate limit.
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To my knowledge each application gets 100 million api calls per day per application and 600 calls per second per access token.
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I'm using the Twitter search API (for example: http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?q=%23juventus&rpp=100&page=4)
I read here: http://search.twitter.com/api/ this:
We do not rate limit the search API under ordinary circumstances, however we have put measures in place to limit the abuse of our API. If you find yourself encountering these limits, please contact us and describe your app's requirements.
The limit seems random: sometimes I do 150 requests sometimes 300, generally, after 5 minutes I can do other requests.
I was wondering if is it possible do more requests
They'll detect floods and throttle accordingly rather than publisher defined limits, which is why it appears random. It'll also no doubt be based on load from other sources at the time.
If you need lots more, then they gave you the answer - contact them telling them why.

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