The Twitter API

The Twitter API is a service provided by Twitter to allow 3rd-party applications like TweetDeck to access the Twitter data and functions.

For more information about the Twitter API and how it affects TweetDeck, please see this FAQ.

Rate Limit Exceeded

If you use up all your API calls within an hour, you will see the message "Rate limit exceeded" in the bottom right-hand corner of TweetDeck and will be unable to make any more calls until your API allowance is reset for the next hour.

For more details, please see this FAQ.

To ensure you do not exceed your API limit, we highly recommend allowing TweetDeck to manage your API usage, as described in this FAQ.