Twitter API calls in the browser with JSON and jQuery

One of the key restrictions with the Twitter API is that any client IP address can only make x number of API calls per hour. If you’re making these API calls from your web server (which obviously only a static IP address), you could quickly use up your hourly allocation on a busy site. Twitter does allow you to “whitelist” your web application to give you a better hourly rate, but here’s a better way: Use the clients, ie your users, to make the API calls from their browsers.

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Submitted by: JohnGalt Submitted on: Dec 16, 2009

Source: http://www.reynoldsftw.com/2009/12/twitter-api-calls-in-the-browser-with-json-and-jquery/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: reynoldsftw (Steve Reynolds Blog New)