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I am using the Twitter web API to scrape some followers. Previously, I was able to obtain around 50,000 followers in a 15-minute window, but now I am only getting 5,000 in that same time frame, and I'm hitting the rate limit 429.

https://twitter.com/i/api/graphql/xjJ7_nvN1nSB_z0VsPT0Q/Followers?

I tried using IP proxy switching, but it seems they are checking a token that I am sending, so the backend logic is in control of this. Is there any legitimate way to avoid this limit?

codextwit
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From what I understand, you are experiencing rate limiting issues. One solution could be to add a time.sleep('number here') function to make your program wait between each request, which should help to alleviate the problem.

exsnake
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