Little Known Twitter Limitations

[quasso]

You use Twitter constantly for your business but you may not be aware
that Twitter has some limitations that may affect your use. A lot of
the limitations may not be any big deal but they are important to know.

A limited number of followers

Once your Twitter account is following 2,000 other Twitter users, if
you try to follow additional people, you will be limited by ratios that
are specific to your account. If you have that many followers (which
many people do not), you will get a message from Twitter once you have
reached that limit. Two thousand people is a high number for “regular
folks.” You will receive notification that you have reached that limit
and you will have to wait until you are given permission to go over that
limit before you can follow any additional people. If you are connected
to someone on Twitter and they are at their 2,000 follower limit,
please don’t take it personally and unfollow them. They don’t really
have any control over the situation. If you reach your Twitter limit and
have other people with whom you wish to be connected, you need to look
at your others and consider if you can do without following them. If you
feel that you can, you can substitute the new followers for the ones
that you already had.

Your following percentage is higher

Twitter allows you a slightly higher percentage of people whom you
are allowed to follow than who are allowed to follow you. According to
Twitter, the limit is not a set number. It is different for every person
and it is based on the ratio of followers to following. Once you have
hit the limit, an error message will appear in your browser. Once you
have more followers, you will be able to follow additional people as
well.

Daily following ability

You are only allowed to follow 1,000 people a day (this is pretty
generous). You should be careful not to send tweets too frequently to
the same followers, however, because you will hit the limit, which may
lock your Twitter account for up to 24 hours. It is a good idea to
follow people during less-popular hours (perhaps during non-business
hours) in order to avoid your limit. You wouldn’t want your limit to
prevent you from tweeting some really important content.

Daily tweet limit

Your daily tweet limit is 1,000. Of course, that is pretty generous.
Depending on how actively you tweet, you will most likely not get close
to the limit of 1,000 tweets a day.

Hourly tweets

If you divide 1,000 tweets in a 24-hour period by 24, you can do 41
tweets in an hour. What is the chance that you will exceed that in any
given hour during business (or even during your personal time)? You also
have a limit of 250 direct messages a day. If you compare direct
messages to Emails, would you really send that many Emails in one day?

Conclusions

Twitter is an excellent social media tool for business. It is
important to be aware of what it can do for you and what it can’t do. It
works most effectively one on one and is a tool that is tailor made for
customization. Twitter is constantly striving to meet the needs of its
users and feedback is taken very seriously and the suggestions that are
communicated are implemented to a great extent. The tweets always cater
to the individual. The chances are great that you will not go anywhere
near the limits that have been discussed here. However, it is very
important to be aware of the rules that Twitter has established so that
you can use it in the most effective way for your business

[c0ri]

Thanks for these. I've actually been wondering how this all works myself. Been working on a tool to automate getting twitter followers via twiends. So with this info my job will be a bit easier. Also, a bit off topic but do you think that an automated bot for getting twitter followers would be something that people would be interested in purchasing?

[indonep]

Thanks for these

[quasso]

Quote: Thanks for these. I've actually been wondering how this all works
myself. Been working on a tool to automate getting twitter followers via
twiends. So with this info my job will be a bit easier. Also, a bit off
topic but do you think that an automated bot for getting twitter
followers would be something that people would be interested in
purchasing?

I don't know what to say. Maybe if you make a little research? I don't use Twitter beyond personal, so I don't have to much experience with it. Also this info is what I found on a regular search.