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Actually, this angst about the app not working might be better directed towards Twitter, who throttles API connections to maintain performance. Flipboard can't
by illumin8 16y ago
Actually, this angst about the app not working might be better directed towards Twitter, who throttles API connections to maintain performance. Flipboard can't help it that the demand of users that want to receive tweets through their app is higher than Twitter allows.
This article should have just said "twitter fails" and it would be more accurate.
- camwest 16y agoI think this is more about the fact that Flipboard processes the tweets on their own servers. I don't think the twitter api throttling is a factor.
- illumin8 16y agoI see. The message I got from Flipboard app made it sound like they had exceeded their time-based quota of Twitter API traffic, but it makes sense that perhaps it is the Flipboard servers that are getting too much traffic.
- smackfu 16y agoOther iPad Twitter clients have no problem with throttling. I guess they should have done client-side processing, rather than server-side.