Twitter Follow Limits – Twitter.com Follow Limits

Every day I see a lot of questions posted on Twitter.com by twitter users.  Because as of today I  have 96,813 Following and 88,839 Followers there are a lot of people asking me questions.  I also get questions on other social media sites such as LinkedIn and Ryse and Facebook.  One of the most Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) that I see about Twitter is some variation of the following questions:

Why can’t I follow more people on twitter?

Why can’t I follow anyone on twitter?

Why is there a limit of 2000 people that I can follow on twitter?

Twitter has restricted my account and I am only following 2000 people. Why is that?

My twitter.com account is broken. Why can’t I follow anyone? Can anyone help?

The answer to all of these questions is simple and straightforward.  When you get to the point that you are following 2000 people, twitter will restrict your account until more than 1818 people are following you.   Once you reach above that number, your account is always restricted to 1.1 times the number of people who are following you …

So … If you have 2200 followers, you can follow 2420 people. If you have 3826 followers, you can follow 4209 people. … and so forth.

This is one of their spam controls.

They have quite a few others that they don’t usually talk too much about but they have documented them in their help files here.   They limit the number of people you can follow in a day, they limit the number of direct messages you can send in a day, etc. Sometimes they simply stop allowing you to add people no matter what.

The 2000 limit is the least onerous of their restrictions.

Protect your account by using is judiciously.

I hope that helps explain the Twitter.com 2000 following follow limits.

PS:  Have you watched my video on Twitter Strategy and the Top Three Most Important Things about using Twitter?

Thank you,

Bill Austin
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Top 3 Social Media Strategies for twitter.com from @wbaustin

Bill Austin was recently interviewed by Travis Campbell of MarketingProfessor.com on the topic of “Top 3 Social Media Tips & Strategies.”  The video interview is featured below.

To summarize, the top three tips are:

1. Get Involved
2. Engage
3. Personalize

Some quotes from this social media and twitter tips video:

“If you want to engage with people in order to grow your business or grow your social relationships and grow your social capital, you have to engage with them.

“Put your picture up there, fill out your bio.”

“It’s called social media for a reason.  And that’s because it’s supposed to be social.  So if you’re just on there to count numbers or connect with everybody in sight and you don’t really know them, you’re not going to get much value out of it.”

“You already know the people who are going to make your business successful and make you successful.” … “they know your next customer.”

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