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btipling

You don't have to make calls to get the rate limit left, it comes in the API response HTTP header.

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/rate-limiting

Look for these headers:

X-FeatureRateLimit-Limit

X-FeatureRateLimit-Remaining

X-FeatureRateLimit-Reset

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The author is talking about application/rate_limit_status which is also rate limited. The headers are great if you keep track of them from the response on your other calls, but if you want to see your rate limit status across all endpoints you can use:

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/application/rate_li...

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