# Rate Limiting Concerns

**URL:** <https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/rate-limiting-concerns/6698>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [June 27, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/rate-limiting-concerns/6698 "2016-06-27T21:50:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![SeeingBlue](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/seeingblue/32/1876_2.png) [@SeeingBlue](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/SeeingBlue)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/rate-limiting-concerns/6698/1 "2016-06-27T21:50:40Z")

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My bot runs as a desktop application with thousands of users. Anywhere from 300-700 users online at any time. I send my client-id with everyone’s request.

I have a few questions regarding rate limiting. I know there isn’t a hard limit but I want to make sure I am using good practice.

My first concern involves followers. I would like my users to keep an up-to-date list of all their followers. Would it be to much to poll all their followers each time they go live if I use the cursor?  
Also how often can I poll the API for new followers, remember this is per user.

My second question is, how often can my users poll for channel status?

I guess I just really want to make sure I am doing the right thing by allowing users to use my client id to make request from their bots.

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**Author:** ![DallasNChains](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/dallasnchains/32/1608_2.png) [@DallasNChains](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/DallasNChains)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 1:15am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/rate-limiting-concerns/6698/2 "2016-06-28T01:15:19Z")

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Our general guidance is around 1 request/second. Really, you shouldn’t have any issues if you’re caching responses and being cautious about cooldown times between requests. There are folks here that hit the API a lot and never have issues with rate limiting.

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**Author:** ![system](https://d2opxh93rbxzdn.cloudfront.net/original/2X/0/05909729875cce3b53e59d5561c4d23bb14948fc.png) [@system](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 1:15am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/rate-limiting-concerns/6698/3 "2016-07-28T01:15:24Z")

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Closed on July 28, 2016, 1:15am UTC

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