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I created a Twitter flow to essentially retweet any tweet containing #SharePoint. It worked a handful of times, but is now consistently throwing the "out of call volume quota" exception. I'll wait until the quota is replenished and see what happens, but wondering if anyone has an idea why this is happening.

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After playing with this a bit, I'm sure something is preventing this Flow from running too much. The #SharePoint topic is fairly popular and having this Flow run thousands of times per day would be ridiculous.

I've reworked it to be a recurring workflow that runs every 15 minutes, finds the latest one #SharePoint tweet, and then retweets it. We have some internal communities in my company so a steady newsfeed keeps the portal up to date so I don't have to manually do it...pretty slick.
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Was the solution to this one found? I am hitting this too and would like my flow to be realtime and not scheduled on a periodic basis, without running into this error. Is there a solution?
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Also @Anonymous would love to know how to fixed this by creating a periodic flow. Could you please share.
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I'm not sure what Flow uses to communicate with Twitter, but I assume that they're using the same REST API that any other developer would be using. In that case, there are some pretty severe limits on how many requests can be made in a given period of time, likely to prevent spammers. You can read more about the API limits here: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/rate-limiting
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Sure. Here's a screenshot of the steps.
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Thanks for the idea, but when I try it, I don't see the Search Twitter action. Is this been deprecated? or is there some other reason I don't see the action?

Thanks.
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I think this is an issue that is popping up for everyone. Not all of the available actions/conditions are listed, but you should still be able to choose them if you search. For example, if you search for "twitter" when you add an action, the Twitter - Search tweet action should appear:
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BTW I think that a 15' interval is the used by IFTTT.
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@Anonymous, @JerodJ you are right. Twitter apis have strict rate limiting constraints and policies for violations. Unfortunately, Twitter does not block the offending user but the app - which if ever were to happen, would block all Flows using Twitter. We are aware that this limits usability and are exploring solutions.