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Asked: 2026-05-15T08:56:05+00:00

I am writing a twitter app using jtwitter – and its running inside a

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I am writing a twitter app using jtwitter – and its running inside a server inside my work. Anyway – whenever i run it from work it returns the error below and I am only making a couple requests per hour:

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
{"request":"/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?count=6&id=cicsdemo&","error":"Rate limit exceeded. Clients may not make more than 150 requests per hour."} ]
2010-06-03 18:44:49 zero.timer.TimerTask::run Thread-3
    SEVERE [ CWPZA3100E: Exception during processing for timer task, "twitterTimer". Exception: java.lang.ClassCastException: winterwell.jtwitter.Twitter$Status incompatible with java.lang.String ]

I run the same code from home – its fine.

So obviously at some point twitter thinks our work is all coming from one direct IP – which is why its hitting a limit which it shouldnt.

Do I have any choice or workaround – can i make the limit be counted from my direct machine IP – or to my account instead of IP? Can i use a proxy? Has any body else had this problem and solved it?!

Before anyone asks the APP must live inside my work – it cannot run anywhere else!

Cheers,

Andy

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  1. Editorial Team

    Authenticate against an account so that you’re using the account’s API request limit, not the unauth’d IP limit:

    http://dev.twitter.com/pages/rate-limiting

    http://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth

    If you still have issues, you can ask for whitelisting of the company IP, but for what you’re talking about (only a few requests an hour), just auth’ing to an account is the best option.

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