Hello. I’m a scientific researcher, not a developer, so thanks for your patience! I’m coding a basic script to take all recent tweets from a list of users, and store those tweets in a database. I’m using a standard access API.
If I make a script which iterates through, say, 1000 users making a twurl GET request for each one, eventually I get rate limit errors after about 800 users. Some of those requests return no tweets, some return lots; I end up with a pile of around 5000 tweets, as I am aiming for. But I thought the rate limit was 15 requests in 15 minutes? I also don’t understand my developer.twitter dashboard - I am looking to see how many requests I have made, but it always says I have done zero requests, of a maximum of 250 requests per month. What is a “request”? Do twurl requests count as requests?
Thanks for humoring my basic questions! 
(No, I did not find Twitters docs on API use very enlightening… :/)
