# Twitter - rate limit exceeded

**URL:** <https://mpsocial.com/t/twitter-rate-limit-exceeded/4640>\
**Category:** Twitter Marketing\
**Created:** [February 7, 2017, 2:48pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/twitter-rate-limit-exceeded/4640 "2017-02-07T14:48:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Dave9s](https://mpsocial.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@Dave9s](https://mpsocial.com/u/Dave9s)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 2:48pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/twitter-rate-limit-exceeded/4640/1 "2017-02-07T14:48:20Z")

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I am getting the error “rate limit exceeded” when i signup twitter, not sure if this happened in other cases too …

How will i prevent this ?  
does it have any impacy on how many users that could we could run on an ip ?

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**Author:** ![euhero](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/euhero/32/20592_2.png) [@euhero](https://mpsocial.com/u/euhero)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/twitter-rate-limit-exceeded/4640/2 "2017-02-07T16:22:39Z")

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Are you using other tools aside from MP? Rate Limit on twitter is usually for API calls.

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**Author:** ![Dave9s](https://mpsocial.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@Dave9s](https://mpsocial.com/u/Dave9s)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/twitter-rate-limit-exceeded/4640/3 "2017-02-07T18:44:16Z")

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nope, however, i added three twitter accounts using the same ip. does it cause this issue and will have any side effects like getting banned ?

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**Author:** ![Johnny](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/johnny/32/45706_2.png) [@Johnny](https://mpsocial.com/u/Johnny)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 10:25pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/twitter-rate-limit-exceeded/4640/4 "2017-02-07T22:25:41Z")

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> [@Dave9s](#):
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> however, i added three twitter accounts using the same ip. does it cause this issue and will have any side effects like getting banned ?

yeah, that could be the problem. try with another ip/proxy