When I open the chat tab for my Twitter account upon opening Thunderbird, it connects briefly, then disconnects after a few minutes. It will then try to connect again, but usually only manages it for a few seconds. After several attempts, it finally can't connect at all. When I try to check the "show chat status," I get an "Error: 429 - {"errors":[{"message":"Rate limit exceeded", "code", 88}]}". It just started doing this a week or two ago. I only use it one or two days a week so I'm not sure what day it suddenly started. It worked fine before that since I set it up a couple of months ago. When I try to check the "chat status" under tools, it is greyed out so that I can't click on it.

I think that's all the relevant data... Any ideas of what's wrong? Aside from Thunderbird chat is trying to connect to Twitter too much after the initial connection problems? Thanks.