October 2010
3 posts
Twitter forces us to come up with a business model...
Twitter’s new limit on POST requests from a single IP unfortunately makes it impossible for us to continue offering a free version of Refollow with follow and unfollow capabilities. We are still crunching the numbers on this, but here’s what we’re thinking!
In order to cover the hosting costs necessary to work around Twitter’s limits, we will offer a membership...
New Twitter api restrictions will not allow us to...
We are very disappointed to announce that Twitter’s new api restrictions no longer allow Refollow to support any interesting amount of users. Twitter has apparently now limited the number of follow/unfollow operations a single server can send to them (“rate limits”) rather that limiting it for each user via their api call limits. What this means is that we either need to stop...
Twitter has blocked our ip (again)
For the third time, Twitter has managed to block refollow’s ip (preventing anyone from logging in through OAuth). This has come without notification to us, nor do we have any answers from them yet as to why.
Here’s our request in case you are...