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I always find it humorous that Twitter was the creator of the HTTP response code: 420: Enhance Your Calm Returned when an application is being rate limite

by ben174 9y ago

I always find it humorous that Twitter was the creator of the HTTP response code: 420: Enhance Your Calm Returned when an application is being rate limited for making too many requests. https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/response-codes https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/response-codes

lightbyte 9y ago
Is this not what 429 is for? Their docs [1] also suggest 429 is what they are actually returning [1]: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/rate-limiting https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/rate-limiting
- striking 9y ago
  Yeah, they ended up changing it.
- ben174 9y ago
  Right, the joke is that 420 is a marijuana reference. "Enhance your calm", i.e. smoke a joint and chill out a bit.