Hi guys,
wanted to understand the rate limits better, looks like 900/user but how many users can my app have?
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Your app can have as many users as your backend supports, authenticated using sign-in with Twitter. The rate limits per user should only be used for operations on behalf of that user’s usage of the platform.
For example, you have three signed-in users. Each user may lookup / fetch from the Tweet lookup endpoint, 900 times within a 15 minute period, before their API usage counter is reset. In practice, that’s a lot of API calls (one every second for an individual user).
You should not use access tokens for user A/B/C to 3x your app’s overall API calls in order to fetch lots of data for your own use. That’s against the rules, as it would be circumventing the rate limits.
There is no limit to the number of users your app can have, but they must each individually authenticate your app to the Twitter API via the sign-in with Twitter flow.
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