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Items tagged twitter in Jan, 2012

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Do Twitter API limits rest at the top of the hour or is it floating?

I’m pretty sure they are calculated from the time of the first hit you make to the API—resetting on the hour would likely encourage API users to run large batches of queries at 1 second past the hour, resulting in huge and unwanted traffic spikes.

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What is a Twitter alternative for internal teams?

Yammer is the most obvious tool here.

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How to get a Twitter user’s join date?

It’s included in the standard user JSON that comes back with any tweet—or you can hit http://api.twitter.com/1/users/s... and look at the created_at key

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