For all in this topic, we implemented new app-level rate limits on October 22nd. If one of your users posts Tweets 5 times within 3 hours, that is well within the user-level rate limit that we have. However, if you have 500 users posting Tweets 5 times within 3 hours using one of your Twitter apps, that is over our app-level rate limit.
Please review this announcement for more details on this:
If you are hitting these rate limits, then you should submit the following form, making sure to select I would like to apply for elevated POST limits.
https://help.twitter.com/forms/platform
If you do not see this option on this form, then you are likely not making requests to the POST endpoint at a volume that would require this elevation.
If you are indeed hitting rate limits, but do not see this option in the form, please let me know. I am going to need the following information from you to help you out:
- The app ID that you are hitting rate limits with.
- The endpoint that you are hitting the rate limit with.
- The use case related to why you are making so many requests to this endpoint.
Thanks!