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Asked: 2026-06-16T16:24:55+00:00

I am new to twitter API started working on it on PHP using this

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I am new to twitter API started working on it on PHP using this library.

// connecting to it and asking for user look up
$twitter = new TwitterOAuth(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET);
$twitter->host = "https://api.twitter.com/1/";
$userInfo= $twitter->post( 'users/lookup', array('user_id' => "".$id)); // i am talking about this line

here I am calling users/lookup for each id I have (I know I can put multiple ids comma seprated) but I didn’t know that before; any way I noticed I get the rate limit of 150 calls why can’t I do more? it should 350 calls since I am using Oauth, is this correct?

What am I doing wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Lots of problems in your code.

    1. You are using API version 1.0. users/lookup is not available in 1.0. Its introduced in 1.1. Use endpoint https://api.twitter.com/1.1/ first.
    2. user/lookup is a GET request not POST. see GET user/lookup. Use $twitter->get() method.
    3. Rate limit for GET users/lookup is 180 per 15 minute window. Thats 720 per hour. See REST API V1.1 Limits

    Your final code should something like this,

    $twitter->host = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/";
$userInfo= $twitter->get( 'users/lookup', array('user_id' => "".$id));
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