The paragraph is letting you know that the API isn't the only source of rate limits. If an API method says it isn't rate limited it means the request will not count against the 350 authenticated (150 unauthenticated) requests you are permitted per hour.
It doesn't mean the method isn't limited in some way though. In the text we link to the page on our Twitter help site which explains the other limits which exist on Twitter. Those limits are often referred to as user limits and apply to the user no matter what application or site they are using (including twitter.com).
The user limits are described on more detail on the help site (linked to from the rate limiting document):
Best,
@themattharris
Developer Advocate, Twitter
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On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Correa Denzil <mcenley@gmail.com> wrote:
Matt :Can you also clear the air on what the snippet from the Twitter docs mean? I read it as there are no non-rate limited methods.--"API methods which are not directly rate limited are still subject to organic, unpublished limits. This includes actions like publishing status updates, direct messages, follow/unfollow actions, etc. These Twitter Limits are described on our help site"
--Regards,
Denzil
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Matt Harris <themattharris@twitter.com> wrote:Hey,This endpoint has always been rate limited so this is an error in the docs. We have some updates to the docs coming out soon which will correct that.Best,
@themattharris
Developer Advocate, Twitter
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:56 AM, dt <dtipson@gmail.com> wrote:According to the current docs, the users/profile_image path is not
currently rate limited:
http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/profile_image/:screen_name
But when I access this method, I'm sometimes getting rate limit
errors:
{"error":"Rate limit exceeded. Clients may not make more than 150
requests per hour.","request":"\/1\/users\/profile_image\/tw.json?
size=bigger"}
Has this policy been updated, and the docs are behind? (I work in a
place where a single IP is shared for the whole building, so rate
limits are exceeded a lot of the time when I'm testing)
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