#1

I really need help with answers to my question.

I was using the premium sandbox and recently upgraded to paid premium for 10,000 requests per month. My subscription starts Jan 8 with renewal date of Feb 8. When I was using sandbox, my each request gets me 100 tweets (as specified in the documentation). Now, after upgrade, when I made a request with max=500 I do get 500 tweets but I am charged 5 requests. Why is this the case? I paid $1200 so that I can get 500 tweets per request, not 100 tweets per request. Please help me understand this.

Chong

#2

Hi Chong,
No, you’re only charged 1 requests per single Premium request, but you need to keep in mind that requests you made under the sandbox prior to your upgrade (in this billing cycle) also count as requests in the current billing cycle.

#3

Dear Samir, thank you for responding. But after upgrade, I tested with a request for 500 tweets and was charged 5 requests (I see my requests count went up by 5). I am not sure if you are able to access my subscription, and if you can, please tell me how many tweets I can get on Feb 4 assuming I get full 500 tweets each request. I am planning for collecting SuperBowl tweets so I need to know if I have the capacity to get the tweets I need.

Chong

#4

Hi Chong,
I don’t work for twitter, I am a developer like you so I don’t have access to your account. I am not exactly sure about your case, but we have been using the Premium API for a long time, and each request counts as one.
The dashboard should tell you how many more requests you have left in this billing cycle.
From my experience, the most confusing part is the sandbox requests getting carried into and counted as request in the Premium subscription, so you don’t start with zero after the upgrade, just keep that in mind. The other area to watch out is rate limited requests, if you query too soon then you get rate limited, and I believe those are also counted towards your quota (not sure if this has changed now but in the past it used to be like that).
Also keep in mind that paging through requests will count as requests too, so a page might contain less than 500 tweets if the query spans multiple months.
If you want to be certain your code works correctly I recommend you make another request, it should count as 1. Try to debug your code and make sure your code is not triggering retries, paging or rate limited requests.

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#5

Thank you for your help.

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#6

You are welcome!

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