What EXACTLY causes the 150 queries to be used up for Twitter apps?

[Matth3w]

I keep getting this message about Twitter restricting to 150 queries or something an hour and Twidroid can't do anything.

I can't find a good answer on Google as to what exactly constitutes this...

Because in the last hour I "tweeted" three times and got ZERO updates from the three people I follow. Yet it still shut me down.

 

[fuzzym]

The Twitter API itself only allows for 150 queries per hour. So any app, whether on your PC/Mac or phone or whatever, can only query up to 150 times per hour. It's not Twidroid's fault, it's something that Twitter built into the API.

 

[Matth3w]

I get that, but what is a query in this case?

Like I said, I didn't really make any queries and I only posted 3 things...all from my phone, only one account, no other apps, nothing from the computer...

 

[qoncept]

I tried Twidroid one time, did next to nothing and then inexplicably hit that limit. Lucky for me, I think twitter is the most stupid, worthless thing in the world so I just uninstalled.

 

[fuzzym]

I believe a query constitutes every time that you check for new tweets (whether Twidroid does it automatically or whether you open Twidroid and check manually) as well as when you send updates.

 

[Matth3w]

Ok so that's like 9 things max. Four times it checks an hour, and I posted three things, and sent two messages.

 

[Matth3w]

bumpage...

 

[Matth3w]

bump again

 

[Backnblack]

Have you emailed the developer on this issue?

 

[Matth3w]

No because it's not specific to that application. It's specific to Twitter. I was just curious as to what constituted a search.

 

[bllarkin]

Do you have any Twitter apps running on a desktop or laptop, such as Tweetdeck or something? All of these use the same API call pool. Any time that an application sends a request to Twitter, it is part of that 150 pulls.

 

[Matth3w]

Nope......