While playing with twitter search for few minutes, suddenly a message popped up saying that “Sorry! You’ve hit your hourly usage limit. Try again soon”. I was sure that it was because of my last few minutes excessive search requests. I also noticed that my searches were failing at that moment. So I waited just a couple of minutes and tried again. Mysteriously the search was working fine just after 2 minutes wait. Somehow my belief was that twitter doesn’t block for an hour, it may be less than that. I was curious to see what’s the maximum number of search request is required to reach the limit. So I started to search again. This time I was searching with all good words and I noticed that even after 50+ requests it’s not blocking me. Then I started to use bad words like my first attempt (mixing up with special character, XSS attack, missing word etc.) and interestingly just after few tries, the message again came up. But interestingly this time search was not blocked. The search result was coming nicely but the message was appearing with every request. I tried with changing browser, re-login, changing IP etc. But the result was same. Funny bug! from twitter.
Video: Sorry! You’ve hit your hourly usage limit. Try again soon. – A fake message from twitter.
But how do you permanently stop getting this message: Sorry! You’ve hit your hourly usage limit. Try again soon.
I got it a few mins ago, getting sick of twitter.
I’ve searched twitter and read tweets a lot while not logged in and never had this problem. Happened to me today for the first time while logged in, so I logged out and had no more problems
Not only on searches.
If I open 10+ tabs in a browser with twitter feeds without doing whatsoever else, I’m getting the same blocking me warning message popup.
Any input twitter DM (Direct Message in tab Messages), if to to access each again, show varying # of dupes 1–>2–>3–>4–>1–>etc times of each incomeing DM (I do not know about outgoing DMs since I never sent any considering it spamming)
Can you confirm that you observe the same?
Before introduction of Activity tab, I could copy&paste from the same tweet (and webpage) while retweeting by new tweet (RT tweet text). Now it is impossible
With so many great usability troubles, there is no point to complicate user unfriendliness introducing new declared features.