Twitterpated (updated)

Written by: Adam Christianson

Categories: Random Thoughts

twitterpated.pngGuess it’s not good to follow too many people on Twitter. This limit seems too small to me. How do Leo, Scoble, and Calacanis manage this?

Update: Thanks to all who commented and provided feedback. Looks like this error is spawned by my Twitter client checking the server feed too often. I changed the setting and all is right with the tweets!

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  1. Rene | Jan 09 2008 - 09:20

    I guess, twitter is too addictive to be healthy, so they put in a safety precaution to avoid future lawsuits. –wink

  2. Jason Tucker | Jan 09 2008 - 10:45

    That is actually the polling that the client is doing every 3-5 minutes. Do you have 2 twitter clients running? This happened to me this morning as well. Snitter was running at home and Snitter is running at work.

    I ended up setting a cron job that did a “kill all” on the app at 8:00am at home which is when I’m at work. I also set this up for 5:00pm for my mac mini at work.

  3. Patlaj | Jan 09 2008 - 10:48

    Yeah, it shouldn’t matter how many people you’re following, because it’s only one request, even if you’re pulling 50 tweets per.

  4. Jason Tucker | Jan 09 2008 - 10:00

    Patlaj:

    Its not the tweets its the polling freq. You have 2 twitter clients running you’re cutting down the number of updates you can do in an hour.

  5. Graham | Jan 09 2008 - 12:29

    Yep, what the others said. twitterific polls every 3 mins, so if you’ve got another twitter client logged in somewhere, there’s your problem!

  6. Robin | Jan 09 2008 - 04:36

    I have only one client running and this happened to me until I reduced the refresh rate to 15 minutes.