What does rate limit exceeded mean on Twitter?

1 Jul 2023

What Does 'rate Limit Exceeded' Mean For Twitter Users?

Elon Musk's control over Twitter is still a bit uncertain, as users face yet another worldwide interruption.

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Perhaps he should dedicate less time to organizing battles in enclosures with fellow billionaires and invest more effort into rectifying his $44 billion acquisition.

Countless people around the world have expressed their frustration, revealing the inability to send tweets or track other users. This issue has been persistently accompanied by identical error notifications.

Users are encountering a notification displaying 'exceeded rate threshold', which hinders them from accessing fresh tweets on their timelines, publishing their own tweets, and even sending direct messages (DMs).

Is there a major problem or is this easily solvable? Here's the explanation...

Basically, this implies that individuals have reached the maximum threshold imposed by the platform for the quantity of tweets or fresh profiles they can track during a particular period.

However, if we delve into the technical details, we can refer to the information previously shared by Twitter's official blog regarding the error message.

Their explanation, which includes some jargon, states: 'To manage the utilization of the Twitter API (the platform that supplies Twitter data for external Twitter apps like TweetDeck), Twitter imposes a restriction on the number of times it can be accessed within an hour.'

Technically, every action involving interaction with Twitter can be regarded as an API call. However, our main concern is to identify the specific API calls that contribute to reaching the 100 calls limit.

The easiest manner to comprehend this concept is to consider that every time you make a request for data from the Twitter API, it will contribute towards your set limit. Thus, when TweetDeck refreshes the columns displaying All Tweets, Replies, or Direct Messages, it will be considered as a single request in each case.

In order to decrease the chances of encountering the error notification, the Twitter expert recommends:

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