title: how to overcome twitter api rate limit?
body: <p>I am writing a small app, building stats for twitter users (no of tweets, friends etc).  I am using this api</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?user_id=12345" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?user_id=12345</a></p>
  
  <p>I can only make 150 calls per hour, which is very very small, given the size of twitter. How do companies that rely on Twitter's API manage to overcome this rate limit?</p>