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jeremy — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:31:10 -0000

my twitter just reach 2000 followers today and it stop there, no more follower can be add. Really nothing we can do to break the 2000 limit?

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Tweet man — Sun, 03 May 2009 14:24:27 -0000

I saw that www.followtweet.com has a workaround

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Arthur Chappell — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:41:12 -0000

I am now affected by the limitations - My views on the limits are given in detail at http://arthurchappell.me.uk...

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Max — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:49:45 -0000

Oh I see, thanks for pointing that out.

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Games — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:52:24 -0000

They are trying to stop trafic sales from followers numbers

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Max — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:50:44 -0000

I have very mixed feelings about this hard line approach.

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Sol Young — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:56:31 -0000

If it's a way to keep spammers in check, it's not going to work (http://solyoung.com/2008/08.... It's a piece of cake to continue spamming. It would be incredibly short sighted if the folks at Twitter did it for this reason.

With their queueing system, the load is on the status delivery. I could understand limiting the number of people who can follow someone else. That makes sense to me... 10,000 SMSs to send is a very large number, especially if Scoble gets chatty and those 10,000 have to be sent a few times per minute.

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Robert — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:22:41 -0000

This sounded like nothing but good at first, but I then realized the odd predicament it would put me in if I ever reached 2000 followers (not ever likely to be a real problem for me!) The problem for me is that I've always felt it good etiquette to follow most everyone that followed me, so long as they weren't spammers, or site promoters etc. I guess it would simply be an adjustment in thinking, and maybe a reality check for some!

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Jonas — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:29:57 -0000

I'm in two minds about this. I'm not shure it's cool. It's not just about who gets followed but who gets to follow. Who gets to follow and who gets kicked off. I think it would reduce Twitter to something more exclusive than it was meant to be. I follow people I find interesting, fun, useful, whatever. If more services impose limits what do I do? Find somebody less interesting to follow? Doesn't seem fair to me. I think it would kill Twitter because somebody would come along with a follow-who-you-like-service. Bet you didn't think of that, eh? :-) Or maybe you did =:0

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sea_dot — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:57:30 -0000

But... Obama reads all of my tweets, right? RIGHT?

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supacool — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:48:55 -0000

Wallstrip had an awesome episode about Twitter yesterday....http://www.wallstrip.com/2008/08/1...

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rabble — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:28:28 -0000

Seriously folks, who the hell can keep track of more than 2000 people's twitters?! All they are doing is enforcing reality.

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christian — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:12:49 -0000

No limit, "folks, you can have as many followers as you want—there is no limit on your Twitter popularity potential" - biz
http://twitter.com/biz/stat...

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Scabr — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:38:48 -0000

Twitter's Officials:looks like no Followers limit http://help.twitter.com/ind...

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Hayk — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:14:35 -0000

Perhaps this limit is put to have some quality control? upper limit in number of what one can follow will compel to pick and choose whom to follow. This is good because I don't think our attention span or time can anyway allow following even 2000 or even 1000 people closely or even at all.

Many boast of following every important (what they dub important) people on twitter. Following for sake of following and show. This will be cut short as well. Good riddance.

Ultimately, this is good for long-term. Quality among followers will get better because they will have to make a conscious choice of whom to follow not to exceed the number 2000.

Perhaps also there is also a glimmer of business model? Wanna follow more, pay money?

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Loic Le Meur — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:53:47 -0000

Hi Dave, looks like it is the number of people you follow that is limited, not the number of people following you

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Ben James — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:10:16 -0000

You've got it the wrong way round, Dave -- those 3 posts you linked all say that the limit is on the number of people you can follow. Two of them just misuse the "followers" terminology.

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Andy Piper — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:55:15 -0000

Well it's variable anyway - Scoble is on 21,000. The number is crazy anyway.

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Michi — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:33:14 -0000

@ericflo, thx for the clarification. A limit to 2000 _followers_, wouldn't make much sense. What if you'd like to follow so. and he/she has already 2k followers etc. ...

But then, even though the 2k follow limit is quite high, doesn't this divide the users into the ones you want to follow, and the ones you only follow if you still have some "free slots"?

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Dario Salvelli — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:30:30 -0000

I think that is a good limitation, also for spammers. Do u have 2000 friends for real or are only online relation? It's impossible to manage this high number.
So: i write some weeks ago about the business model Twitter. Two way: advertising on the search engine (as Google model) and company that pay to have a business account on Twitter (more than 2000?).
What do u think?

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gregorylent — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:37:47 -0000

i follow only a relative few, but only get every tenth tweet or so those people send. i think they have put a governor on the system, just like a car that can only go 55. even if you sent me the news bulletins, and i was following you, i probably wouldnt get them, 2000 or not

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Steve — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:10:07 -0000

As more people and news sources start using twitter, it could get pretty easy to start following over 2000 (or 2100 or whatever the limit becomes).

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Jesse Stay — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:23:22 -0000

I think they need to make it fair either way - if I can't hit 2,000 (I'm at 1,200 right now) then why can Scoble or Leo Laporte or others do so? Make us all pay if we want that, but don't give certain users exclusive privileges.

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achernow — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:07:51 -0000

Is this in reaction to their growth problems? Is it temporary? Didn't Facebook just lift a similar cap?

I think they need to allow *certain* Twitter accounts (ex: @CNNBRK) to have unlimited followers.