Twitter was not able to perform your query within the Timeout limit of 10000 ms

[jcmag22]

Hi,
I’ve an app that retrieves the home timeline of my users, and periodically I see a lot of these errors in my log files:

“Twitter was not able to perform your query within the Timeout limit of 10000 ms.” (status code=408)

What does it mean? Is it an error from twitter’ side or mine?

[andypiper]

That appears to be an error message string from the tweetinvi API library. I can’t comment on what causes it on the Twitter side.

[jcmag22]

tweetinvi’s author said: “This simply mean that Twitter could not be reached or did not provide a reply after a delay of 10 seconds.”.
My server has no network issue, so should I add some retry feature in my code? is it normal that twitter API takes longer than 10 seconds to reply?

[andypiper]

Not normal, is this reproducible with specific user accounts, or random?

[jcmag22]

it’s totally random…
is there some kind of throttling on twitter’ side? because my app calls twitter at regular intervals, for hundreds of user accounts

[andypiper]

The only limit would be the regular rate limits for the API calls, and if you’re within those, then I would not expect this to be occurring.

[MayakoLyyn]

Hi @jcmag22

Did you found a solution against this issue? I also get some timeout errors on my app (ASP.Net Core, hosted on a Debian server behind nginx) but I never got one while testing on my computer. Even increasing the timeout to 30 seconds seems to not help…