diff --git a/social/backends/reddit.py b/social/backends/reddit.py
index 96be7f811..d7eaa1219 100644
--- a/social/backends/reddit.py
+++ b/social/backends/reddit.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import base64
 
 from social.backends.oauth import BaseOAuth2
+import sys
 
 
 class RedditOAuth2(BaseOAuth2):
@@ -49,3 +50,13 @@ def refresh_token_params(self, token, redirect_uri=None, *args, **kwargs):
         params = super(RedditOAuth2, self).refresh_token_params(token)
         params['redirect_uri'] = self.redirect_uri or redirect_uri
         return params
+
+    def request(self, url, method='GET', *args, **kwargs):
+        """override request so User-Agent does not get lumped in with all urllib hits on reddit (results in "429 Too Many Requests")
+            http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13213048/urllib2-http-error-429"""
+        ua = 'python-social-auth-' + sys.modules['social'].__version__
+        if 'headers' not in kwargs:
+            kwargs.set('headers', {})
+        if 'User-Agent' not in kwargs['headers']:
+            kwargs['headers']['User-Agent'] = ua 
+        return super(RedditOAuth2, self).request(url, method, *args, **kwargs)