What I am doing is:
I create a new list (API: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/post/lists/create) for a user (my own user), then I retrieve all the people I am following ( ~1500 users with the API: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/friends/ids) and I split in chunks of 100 users to add those users to the new list (API: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/post/lists/members/create_all) and at the first call I get a 502 HTTP response with the following content:
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<h1>Twitter is over capacity.</h1>
<p>Please wait a moment and try again. For more information, check out <a href="http://status.twitter.com">Twitter Status</a>.</p>
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I tried this since 5 days ago, many times, and all the time I get this message saying that twitter is over capacity all the times.
With a lower number of ids (like 5-10) sometime it works… but the API call is rate limited.
Is anything wrong with what I am doing?
###Update
Already aware of this bug: issue 383 which looks related (but get 502 instead of 404)
