specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: App.net
providerId: appnet
generated: '2026-07-18'
method: searched
created: '2026-07-18'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Rate Limiting
- Social
description: >-
  App.net Stream API rate limits, enforced per access token for authenticated calls and
  per IP address for unauthenticated calls. Transcribed from the preserved api-spec
  rate-limits documentation; the service is retired.
sources:
- https://github.com/appdotnet/api-spec/blob/new-docs/content/reference/make-request/rate-limits.md
headers:
  remaining: X-RateLimit-Remaining
  limit: X-RateLimit-Limit
  reset: X-RateLimit-Reset
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
retryHeader: Retry-After
limits:
- name: Global (authenticated)
  scope: token
  metric: requests
  limit: 5000
  timeFrame: hour
  notes: Affects all authenticated endpoints, even when other limits also apply.
- name: Write (authenticated)
  scope: token
  metric: requests
  limit: 20
  timeFrame: minute
  notes: POST/DELETE requests.
- name: Global (unauthenticated)
  scope: ip
  metric: requests
  limit: 50
  timeFrame: minute
  notes: Affects all unauthenticated endpoints.
policies:
- name: Multiple limits
  description: >-
    A request may be subject to multiple limits; it counts against each, but headers
    report only the most restrictive applicable limit.
- name: Backoff
  description: On 429, wait the number of seconds in the Retry-After header before retrying.