title: tweepy (python): rate limit exceeded code 88
body: <p>I'm writing a Twitter application with tweepy that crawls up the tweets by looking at in_reply_to_status_ID. 
  Everything works fine up to the rate limit, after a few minutes, I have to wait another 15 minutes or so.</p>
  
  <p>This is strange because I used nearly identical code until a few months ago before API 1.0 got deprecated, and it didn't have the rate limit problem.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a known way I can get rid of, or at least increase the rate limit?
  Or is there a workaround?</p>
  
  <p>Seems like a lot of people are having trouble with this, but can't find a definite solution..</p>
  
  <p>i will greatly appreciate it if you could help.</p>
  
  <pre><code>auth1 = tweepy.auth.OAuthHandler('consumer_token','consumer_secret')
  auth1.set_access_token('access_token','access_secret')
  api=tweepy.API(auth1)
  
  def hasParent(s):
      #return true if s is not None, i.e., s is an in_reply_to_status_id numbe 
  ....
  
  while hasParent(ps):
      try:
          parent=api.get_status(ps)
      except tweepy.error.TweepError:
          print 'tweeperror'
          break
      newparent = parent.in_reply_to_status_id
          ......
      ps=newparent
  </code></pre>