Need to throttle back if rate-limited

[coreyhaines]

When twitter rate limits the bot, need to stop attempting for a while. Either pause for a pre-determined time, or check whether rate-limited each time trying to post.

[baroquebobcat]

The number of requests you have left comes back as a header in each api request.

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/rate-limiting/faq#checking

[baroquebobcat]

It also includes an epoch time which tells you when the ratelimit resets

from the website's headers

X-RateLimit-Class:api_phoenix
X-RateLimit-Limit:1000
X-RateLimit-Remaining:987
X-RateLimit-Reset:1318980704

a tweet bot will probably have a much lower limit than the website though.

[coreyhaines]

Awesome, thanks. I hadn't looked too closely at the return. I'll look into adding this. For now, it just stops for an hour, but having a bit more information like this will make it work better.