Twitter rate limiting Chirp viewers

Just in case you didn’t know it already Twitter is putting on a big developer conference called Chirp. Given our fascination in the tech blogosphere with anything to do with Twitter it’s no surprise that sites have sprung up to cover it with live Twitter feeds and of course the prerequisite live video for those of us working stiffs.

The conference must be popular since it seems that Twitter is rate limiting (meaning they have cut back on the number of calls you can make to their API in a certain space of time) the unofficial sites that have sprung up to cover the conference – much like this one at Twitterface.com