Rate limits with three-legged OAuth vs. application-only authentication?

anand_p_patil · 2015-03-04T17:03:27.393Z

Hi everyone,

I’m working on a demonstration of a useful application of the Twitter REST API. It would be much easier for me to use application-only authentication rather than wiring up three-legged OAuth. However, it would probably be worth it if, under three-legged OAuth, each user’s auth token is rate-limited separately, so that I get 180 queries per 15 minutes per user rather than 180 queries per 15 minutes for all users combined. Is that the case?

Thanks!
Anand Patil

ePirat · 2015-03-04T20:03:01.888Z

You might want to look at this table, that has a nice overview of the differences of Rate Limits per endpoint.

anand_p_patil · 2015-03-05T04:17:08.767Z

Hey @ePirat , thanks for getting back to me. So the table says I get 180 GET requests to favorites/list per 15 minutes with user auth. If I issue tokens to 15 users on the same consumer key, does that mean they each get one request or do they each get 15?

ePirat · 2015-03-05T07:40:46.153Z

Each gets 15 requests. This limit is per app+user combination.

anand_p_patil · 2015-03-05T21:24:42.702Z

Great, thanks for the answer!