Do you get a HTTP status code 420 just for unfollow requests or is it for all requests? Have you attempted to perform the operation in isolation from your servers (not tied to your application business logic, perhaps using command line tools or Curl, Twurl, etc.)?
Can you do the following:
1) Issue one of the API calls you're trying to make, taking note of the exact API URL you're executing (tell me which it is)
(may as well at this time verify that you're using the proper URL structures, including api.twitter.com as the domain "/1/" prepending all resource URLs to indicate the API version)
2) When/if you get the the error response, capture the exact HTTP status code and the raw/exact HTTP body you get in response? (Not as interpreted by any library you're using).
@episod - Taylor Singletary
-- On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:07 PM, nischalshetty <nischalshetty85@gmail.com> wrote:
I cooled down my servers for more than 2 hours now. There were no
activities happening through my app. I turned it back on just a few
minutes back.
The same problem, getting 420 error codes :( Cooling it off again, can
you do something to get me out of this trouble?
-N
> > > It's my apphttp://justunfollow.comIt'sbeen running from more than a
On Apr 6, 9:07 pm, nischalshetty <nischalshett...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Though I have so many users, each user has an internal limit of 100
> unfollows per day which is well within any sort of limits. That is one
> of the reasons why I never implemented any queuing mechanism, such
> short number of unfollows can be done instantly.
>
> Besides, there were no sudden spikes in traffic so this sudden rate
> limiting baffles me. And automated unfollows are not allowed so I
> thought queuing wouldn't be a good idea. I'll try to implement
> something like that but what's the short term solution? Can you do
> something on your end to remove the rate limit if any that might have
> been put on my app?
>
> I have always adhered to twitter limits and rules never going out of
> my way. Please help me with this.
>
> -Nischal
>
> On Apr 6, 9:00 pm, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com>
> wrote:
>
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>
>
>
>
> > By running on Google App Engine, or any host where you share IP addresses
> > with another service, you're going to be at a disadvantage when it comes to
> > abuse detection -- my advice would be to ensure you have a queue system in
> > place for API actions you take (really any application servicing anywhere
> > near as many users as you do should have this in place), especially actions
> > applied in bulk -- you will have times that you need to queue up your
> > actions until you can resume making requests -- the best way to detect if
> > you can resume making requests is by intermittently trying a single item at
> > the top of the queue once every few seconds, increasing the duration you
> > wait with every failed request.
>
> > You never want to continue bursting when faced with an error like this, it
> > would only make your application appear more abusive to the metrics-oriented
> > unfeeling eye of an abuse detection algorithm.
>
> > @episod <http://twitter.com/episod> - Taylor Singletary
>
> > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 8:47 AM, nischalshetty <nischalshett...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
>
> > > year now. I did not see any sudden increase in traffic or any of that
> > > sort. It's hosted on the Google Appengine and there were 2 cases in
> > > the entire year when appengine ips were blocked by twitter.
>
> > > I have more than 200,000 users. Your advice would be greatly
> > > appreciated. I do not make use of any search or trends api.
>
> > > -N
>
> > > On Apr 6, 8:41 pm, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Unfollowing is not "rate limited" by the API, but we have organic limits
> > > on
> > > > most write actions service-wide to prevent certain kinds of bursty
> > > behavior.
> > > > Best to back off from retrying requests when you get an error like this
> > > for
> > > > an exponentially increasing amount of time -- first 30 seconds, then a
> > > > minute, then a few minutes, then 10 minutes, etc.
>
> > > > @episod <http://twitter.com/episod> - Taylor Singletary
>
> > > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 8:31 AM, nischalshetty <nischalshett...@gmail.com
> > > >wrote:
>
> > > > > I am getting this for the Unfollow method. This shouldn't happen for
> > > > > the unfollow API. Can someone at twitter look into it?
>
> > > > > -N
>
> > > > > On Apr 6, 8:24 pm, nischalshetty <nischalshett...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > 420:Returned by the Search and Trends API when you are being rate
> > > > > > limited (http://dev.twitter.com/pages/rate-limiting).
> > > > > > Returned by the Streaming API:
> > > > > > Too many login attempts in a short period of time.
> > > > > > Running too many copies of the same application authenticating with
> > > > > > the same account name.
>
> > > > > > I'm getting the above error. It's in large numbers. Can someone help?
>
> > > > > --
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> > >http://dev.twitter.com/doc
> > > > > API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi
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>
> > > --
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--
Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc
API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi
Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list
Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc
API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi
Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list
Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
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