I knew they were up to something, there was a disturbance in the force. They have turned up the suck knob. - Aron Michalski from IM

I knew they were going to hammer it. If they'd let me pay, I wouldn't consider them the jerks I do right now. - Karoli

Well, maybe I can feed the nasty little bird some diuretics... flow, baby, flow!!! - Aron Michalski

LOL...you go. and go. and go. :) - Karoli

Here's the link: http://groups.google.com/group... -- it's another annoying casualty. I'm actually reducing their traffic by aggregating things on my end. Making less work for them shouldn't be a punishable expense. In the meantime, I've slowed things down some, so maybe it'll work a little more. - Dustin Sallings

once again, their business decisions make the quality of the experience worse and worse, a car manufacturer removing doors, windows and wheels until you get nowhere but pissed off. - Aron Michalski

Dang, they wasted no time with those whitelist limits. What bothers me the most is the dictatorial attitude...how is Friendfeed able to pull the firehose without limits, for example? - Karoli

What Twitter lacks in service they certainly make up for with disdain, disinterest and disinformation towards their users. Way to go. By the time you guys figure out how to scale this thing, we will have stopped wanting to scale the walls of your place for answers. - Aron Michalski

They're going to offer a friendfeed-style HTTP firehose to a limited group. My suspicion is that that group will be limited more by how threatening a business is than even by how much twitter's traffic may be reduced by such a partnership. I might be wrong, but the only ideas they seem to have for making money from their business involve removing value their customers want. - Dustin Sallings

Now referenced here: http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009... - Louis Gray

Heh, there's some great comments here. - Tyson Key

Twitter is matureing and in search of a business strategy. FF is the freshman on the campus. Its no suprise that Twitter is doing this. I'd rather live with the limits than have Twitter close up shop. - Roberto Bonini

Roberto Bonini I somehow think Twitter could figure out how to make money without screwing the customers who give them the content with which to be profitable. Seems draconian and exclusive to me. - Karoli

How could that be? I thought Jack and Biz made a commitment to get you on the whitelist at Bearhug Camp? - Christian Burns

That's what I was wondering when I was raising the red flag earlier - essentially, only those apps and sites that hack around the limit and those that are on client machines, making the same number of requests are allowed. They'll have much more success fixing the API rather than limiting developers. - Jesse Stay

For instance, we're doing this Superbowl survey today which is introducing people to Twitter - I bet they get a few new users from it, but we wouldn't be able to do it if we didn't have a way of getting around the rate limits. - Jesse Stay