We love Twitter. So much so that we made a Twitter widget. We are fortunate enough to have it on some pretty cool sites, even. Twitter has been having capacity and API issues and up until now we haven’t had a problem. Today I was alerted through email from one of our users that something wasn’t working. Twitter is limiting the rate at which clients can access feeds. This is understandable but since we server over 3,000 people with this widget if they all accessed it in one hour we wouldn’t be able to serve 2,900 of them.

Before this wasn’t an issue, but because of changes in security (for the better, so no complaints) and their API restrictions there is really no way for us to get the data we need. Even if we cached the data on our machine, as far as I can tell, we wouldn’t be able to get under that limit.

Anyway, we are trying to work out a solution. In the mean time, we apollogize. Happy Tweeting!

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