Comments on: Twitter Follow Limits Are Jacked

By: http://twitter.com/PrayMaddyMcCann

http://twitter.com/PrayMaddyMcCann — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:18:08 +0000

Well this sucks!
I’ve been wondering what’s been going on with that!
I normally follow everyone back but this is so annoying!

Anyway do follow me because I follow everyone back eventually (hopefuly within a few days max)

http://twitter.com/PrayMaddyMcCann

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:02:25 +0000

I got capped at 1,025 for attempting to follow all of my competitors and colleagues on Twitter… and yes, I mean ALL of them. Every Videography and Event Planner/Space in the world. I assume I need to receive more followers before I can continue to follow more people? Is this correct?

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:32:09 +0000

I really do not understand how they can define someone as Spamming if users willingly followed a person / company within Twitter. They can easily unfollow them if they do not like their tweets. It is the same thing as signing up for someones email list and then unsubscribing if you don’t like their content.

Of course I use a process to find people and follow them in hopes that they checkout my twitter page and follow me back. That’s called marketing and trying to reach out to your audience. if they choose to follow then great…. if not then no harm done.

I have been reduced to following a small amount of people a day now on twitter and there is no explanation why and how these new limits are being determined.

By: giornale

giornale — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:25:06 +0000

thank you

By: Patrick Curl @ There's a Blog in my Soup

Patrick Curl @ There's a Blog in my Soup — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:02:09 +0000

I feel your sentiments exactly, I just posted a similar post on my blog, you can read it at: http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com/why-im-leaving-twitterfollow-me-on-plurk/

I’m definitely wanting to migrate from twitter completely if they keep jerking us around like this..

By: Stop Twitter Spam » Update on Twitter’s Following Limits

Stop Twitter Spam » Update on Twitter’s Following Limits — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:41:27 +0000

[...] And I wasn’t the only one complaining about this. Brad Williams (@williamsba on Twitter) wrote a blog post called “Twitter Follow Limits are Jacked“. [...]

By: GeekMommy

GeekMommy — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:06:06 +0000

Someone elsewhere suggested that the best solution might be to keep people from following thru the API… as this would keep the spammers from mass-following, but would allow those of us with larger communities who really do interact with our follower/ing lists to manually add thru the website when we want to while still discouraging the spammers.

I know I’d be willing to pay for a pro account to get rid of the “limits” on that. And I pretty much maintain a 1-to-1 ratio.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:50:03 +0000

And the funny part is that “spammers” won’t care. Drop 100 to add 100? Who cares. Those aren’t real people. They aren’t customers. They aren’t clients. They aren’t friends. They aren’t people you Want To Follow.

Arbitrary follow limits don’t hurt “spammers”. They only hurt real, authentic, positive, Twitter-evangelizing People!

How many times do we have to repeat this before someone at Twitter wakes up and says “Oops. Bad idea, that.”