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One of the best things about Twitter is that it’s almost impossible for spammers to break the system. There are rules, restrictions and regulations that you must follow if you love Tweet Tweet J
Yesterday when I click to follow my 2001 twitter user suddenly I get this message from the system “You are unable to follow more people, please read about out following limits.” It means you can not keep following unlimited number of people; there is a ratio as to how many people follows you. I immediately refer to Following and update limits: Here is what they say;
We reveal some limits only when you reach them, and tell you about others in advance. Twitter currently applies limits to any person who reaches:
1. 1,000 total updates per day, on any and all devices through web, mobile web, phone, API, etc.
2. 1,000 total direct messages per day, on any and all devices.
3. 100 API requests per hour.
We’ve also placed limits on the number of people you can follow. The number is different for everyone, and is based on a ratio that changes as the account changes. If you hit a follow limit, you must balance your follower/following ratio in order to follow more people- basically, you can’t follow 50,000 people if only 23 people follow you. Based on current behavior in the Twitter community, we’ve concluded that this is both fair and reasonable.
I also ask my followers if they have any information about this system.
Here is what they tweet:
@retta719 (retta719) says:@shankerbakshi It limits everyone to that until you have more than that many people following you back then you can add more
@big_b_rad (Brad Parler) says:@shankerbakshi You have to have hit 2000 followers before you can follow more than 2000…
@RizzoTees (Chris) says:@shankerbakshi that’s the rule. U will always be able to follow 10% more than is following you. so get up around 1830 & u can follow more
@kash78 (Kashif) says:@shankerbakshi When you cross 2000 followers then twitter will allow you to follow more.
@frodeste (Frode Stenstr?m) says:@shankerbakshi You need to have more then 2000 followers to follow more people
@candlemomma (candlemomma) says:@shankerbakshi hmm I never knew that TWITTER could limit yur followers I mean usually u get an email & then click below their name &thats it
@getoninternet (Richard Metcalfe) says:@shankerbakshi twitter has set limits on how many people you are allowed to follow here is an article about it http://tr.im/fa4x
@momentum (Matt Joswick) says:@shankerbakshi I don’t know, but thanks for the follow, I got you back.
@mikemahony (Mike Mahony) says:@shankerbakshi Until you FOLLOW 2000+ you cannot get any more followers.
@cutieissa (Melissa Solito) says:@shankerbakshi re: 2000 limit — I’ve seen other accounts with 2000 limits too. I wonder why. Did u email twitter already?
@hackertweets (Hacker Tweets) says:kidblogger: @shankerbakshi I’m not surprised at all, twitter is very conversational so there’s no reason not to exploit it
@kidblogger (Carl Ocab) says:@shankerbakshi I’m not surprised at all, twitter is very conversational so there’s no reason not to exploit it
@enggpreeti (Preeti SEO) says:@shankerbakshi you can get ur answer here probably: http://twitter.zendesk.com/forums/10711/entries/15364
@DreamWeaverr (Laurie Meekis) says:@shankerbakshi I don’t understand that either. One guy said he had 11,000 followers.
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interesting site it really learns me a lot.
thanks for the information i will apply that.
Hey,
I am glad that my finding helped you. Thanks for including me.
Love to be followed.
Preeti
Thanks for visiting and commenting Preeti.
Hi Shanker,
Hey I have the same problem, Now I know why I culd not follow anymore people. Guess we need to wait. I need to start a follow me campaing, the problem is that I cannot offer to follow them, lol. Maybe offering something else.
BTW Shanker, What would you do to overcome this ratio?
actually there nothing much you can do about it, by the time i was writing this article a bunch of some nice gentle and ladies joined me over twitter and there i am crossing the limit of 2000.
I never knew twitter limits the number of followers. Thank you for this post. Now I know what I should expect
I wonder how sites like MySpace or Facebook would be if they limited the number of friends or put some ratio system in.
I think it´s good that they´ve put these limits in place! It´s only fair that you do your best to have people follow you and not just rely on following other people. A good idea I say
http://twitter.com/TechCrunch has a huge number of followers-me is one, and a small number that he follows- so this only goes one way–Thank you for your post I had no idea. (Tech crunch has a VERY cool blog gadget. I put it on http://saroopsthreading.com a very new client site. I love twitter.
I don’t really understand how people can keep up with following even more than 10-20 people O_o
Unless if you spend every minute in Twitter
Agree with Michael on this. Perhaps 100 or 200 is good enough, unless it’s used as a channel for viral marketing
I think what they’ve done there is brilliant, I always make sure i’m not more than 23 people short ie followers/following 23:1 ratio. Thanks for sharing.
oh that mean we cannot simply follow everyone that following us?
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