instagram api rate limit clarification
<p>We make GET requests to the <code>/users/self/media/recent</code> and <code>/media/media-id/comments</code>
endpoints.
For this we use user authentication with access_token.</p>

<p>According to the rate limit documentation of instagram we should have 5000 requests / access_token / hour available.</p>

<p>logging the number of our requests on average we do about 600 - 800 requests for a user of us but still receive an api limit reached error in the instagram response.
not only that but according to the error we do ~70K request/hour</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>You have exceeded the maximum number of requests per hour. You have performed a total of 68100 requests in the last hour. Our general maximum limit is set at 5000 requests per hour.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Am I missing something? Only a few customers of us are affected by this problem.</p>

<p>Are the limits per user global and all apps the user uses have to share the 5000 requests / hour? That is the only explanation I can come up with but found no documentation of this behavior.</p>