Know Your Limits: How Many Tweets Can You Post Per Day?

I bet you didn’t know there was a limit to the number of tweets you can send out per day. Well there is, but in all likelihood you haven’t even come close to brushing up against it.

Twitter’s API is already dealing with 2,200 tweets per second, on average, and a massive 1.6 billion search queries per day.

The limit they’ve put on individual accounts sending a certain number of tweets is meant to alleviate some of the strain on their servers, and reduce downtime (and it must be working, because we haven’t seen the fail whale in a loooong time).

So

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