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> Complaining Twitter rate-limited his API access (which would be very foolish on their part) I have recently built a Twitter application with the new V2 API.

> Complaining Twitter rate-limited his API access (which would be very foolish on their part) I have recently built a Twitter application with the new V2 API. They do have undocumented API rate limits[1] while the developer documentation says something else[2]. And if you see the discussions at Twitter developer forum, It takes a while for the Twitter representative to find that the issue is because of the undocumented rate limit because it's somewhere deeply integrated into their system(But still wouldn't update the official docs). Besides the Twitter rate limit covers every Twitter application used by the user incl. their official Twitter clients. So I wouldn't be surprised if they gave Musk a privileged API token but forgot to whitelist it against their hidden, obscure rate limits; Of course this could have been noticed early on Musk's side and it's possible that they chose to attribute it to malice. [1] https://twittercommunity.com/t/undocumented-twitter-list-rate-limits/167531/33 https://twittercommunity.com/t/undocumented-twitter-list-rat... [2] https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/rate-limits https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/rate-limit...

jacquesm 4y ago
Then they could have simply communicated that fact the first time they ran into the limits and they certainly would have been lifted. This happens to me during DD all the time and it has never caused a problem or an investor/acquirer to back out of the deal.
- hef19898 4y ago
  Out of coriousity, would Musk's legal team have to proof Twitter restricted his bandwidth out of malice? And wouldn't that be hard if they never conplaibed about to Twitter?
- Abishek_Muthian 4y ago
  Hence I mentioned sighting rate limit seems like they wanted something as scape goat from the start. Besides, I don't think it's even possible to have something at Twitter scale without some immutable rate limits for security & reliability. I mean Musk shouldn't go all SELECT * FROM users;

jacquesm 4y ago

Then they could have simply communicated that fact the first time they ran into the limits and they certainly would have been lifted. This happens to me during DD all the time and it has never caused a problem or an investor/acquirer to back out of the deal.

hef19898 4y ago
Out of coriousity, would Musk's legal team have to proof Twitter restricted his bandwidth out of malice? And wouldn't that be hard if they never conplaibed about to Twitter?
Abishek_Muthian 4y ago
Hence I mentioned sighting rate limit seems like they wanted something as scape goat from the start. Besides, I don't think it's even possible to have something at Twitter scale without some immutable rate limits for security & reliability. I mean Musk shouldn't go all SELECT * FROM users;