Twitter rate limit

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I am whitelisted in Twitter, and I have this "traffic heavy" application that just makes 2 request to find out how many users 2 people have.... the traffic currently is killing the 150 request limit per hour.

How do I authenticate my requests so that twitter knows I am whitelisted?

http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.xml?screen_name=chavezcandanga

http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.xml?screen_name=luischataing

I wish to authenticate those for this simple project http://250mil.com

Thanks!

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How can you kill the 150 request limit if you only make 2 requests? Or did you mean to say that you do 2 requests every second? or ... ? – Lasse V. Karlsen
I am getting 20.000 visits per day on that URL... so I make 40.000 requests – raulriera
outside of white listing, why dont you store the user counts in a database? then you can just cache the values for 30 seconds or a minute and not have to worry about white listing or reaching too many requests. i doubt the users would notice the difference anyway. in fact if you include a timestamp on the counts and you could do a neat little animation from start to finish using all of the values from the table. – Jayrox
I wanted to avoid "complicated" the app, since it was just going to be a 6 days thing... but I guess I have no other solution. Thanks :) – raulriera

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See how to authenticate on the Twitter API Documentation, it explains every method available to authenticate and how to issue such authentication requests.