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Comment by ben174 | Hacker News Reader

I always find it humorous that Twitter was the creator of the HTTP response code:

    420: Enhance Your Calm

Returned when an application is being rate limited for making too many requests.

Is this not what 429 is for? Their docs [1] also suggest 429 is what they are actually returning

Yeah, they ended up changing it.

Right, the joke is that 420 is a marijuana reference. "Enhance your calm", i.e. smoke a joint and chill out a bit.