Comments on: Twitterpated (updated)

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:59:36 +0000

I have only one client running and this happened to me until I reduced the refresh rate to 15 minutes.

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:53:29 +0000

Yep, what the others said. twitterific polls every 3 mins, so if you’ve got another twitter client logged in somewhere, there’s your problem!

By: Jason Tucker

Jason Tucker — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:34:00 +0000

Patlaj:

Its not the tweets its the polling freq. You have 2 twitter clients running you’re cutting down the number of updates you can do in an hour.

By: Patlaj

Patlaj — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:08:48 +0000

Yeah, it shouldn’t matter how many people you’re following, because it’s only one request, even if you’re pulling 50 tweets per.

By: Jason Tucker

Jason Tucker — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:05:45 +0000

That is actually the polling that the client is doing every 3-5 minutes. Do you have 2 twitter clients running? This happened to me this morning as well. Snitter was running at home and Snitter is running at work.

I ended up setting a cron job that did a “kill all” on the app at 8:00am at home which is when I’m at work. I also set this up for 5:00pm for my mac mini at work.

By: Rene

Rene — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:59:20 +0000

I guess, twitter is too addictive to be healthy, so they put in a safety precaution to avoid future lawsuits. –wink