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mittermayr
on Nov 5, 2012
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My popular Twitter Analytics app has reached tech...
Also: I've helped Twitter fix two other bugs that I reported, but on this one, it's a grey area (they don't consider it a bug, but a safety measure in terms of traffic time out, but still charge me API call credits). so yeah.
arcatek
on Nov 5, 2012
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Well, they are right : if someone manage to find a request which regularly fail with timeout, he could use it to spam Twitter's servers indefinitely.
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