Twitter API known limits
Update. All text below is outdated and subject of history.
Twitter significantly changed its automation policy and all follow-unfollow automation is now strictly prohibited.
You very likely can write some bot without using Twitter API but using follow feature of Twitter API make your account automatically suspended.
This post is attempt to write more shortly and understandable what is already written on related twitter pages.
So, known Twitter API limitations:
1. Accounts per IP — unlimited, means that every number of accounts can be created from one machine.
Above is actual for all Twitter users, below only for developers of Twitter clients.
2. follow per account per day — 1000, twitter states that this number is technical limit, but there is some other, let say ethical, that twitter also really count. this number is not released. let take it equals 200.
so, follow per account per day — 200.
3. unfollow per account per day — 100. thinking is pretty likes to above.
4. direct messages per account per day — 250.
5. status updates per account per day– 1000 . The daily update limit is further broken down into smaller limits for semi-hourly intervals (20 per semi-hour). Retweets are counted as updates.
6. other API requests per account per hour (!hour) — 150. this number contains all possible GET requests: the number of followers (or friends) of specified user, checking if UserA is follower of UserB etc. This number is pretty big — 3600 per account per day, so doesn’t even matter if it includes all above numbers or not. As all above requests seems to be POST requests so this number doesn’t include them.
Above numbers are per account below is per IP.
7. search api requests per IP per hour– 200. search api requests per IP !!!: not released, but more than 150 per hour. let say 200 per hour.
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