I'm moving my application from Twitter API version 1 to 1.1 and have issues with friendships/create.
according to the 1.1 documentation (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/post/friendships/create) friendships/create is not rate limited, yet when I call friendships/create I can see that the rate limit is 15 (according to 'x-rate-limit-limit').
Am I doing something wrong here? is the rate limit really 15 follows per time window?
Ran found the solution:
I use the twitter gem and when you call follow it first makes a call to friends/ids to make sure you are not already following that member and /friends/ids is limited to 15 calls per window.
the solution was to call
follow!(with ! ) instead to avoid the check.
From here: https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/14894
According to the new Twitter API documentation on creating friendships:
If the user is already friends with the user a HTTP 403 may be returned, though for performance reasons this method may also return a HTTP 200 OK message even if the follow relationship already exists.
