hi,

I have a general question regarding the twitter4j library. if I want to acces info under the "user" category (see documentation / link "user" in the lower left frame) , I can do that by first defining the user like this:

1.  User user = twitter.showUser(USERID);

and than accesing the info I want like this:

1. tweets = user.getStatusesCount(); // for number of status updates
2. followers = user.getFriendsCount(); // for number of followers

what I don´t understand is, how I can see what I need to initialize before I can acces the info from other queries. for example, to see the remaining hits I have to do this:

1.     RateLimitStatus rate = twitter.getRateLimitStatus();
   
2.     println(rate.getRemainingHits());

what tells me, what I need to do before I can access these things?